Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there is more to be said for it. She has seldom been better at the rueful smile or the sugar-coated sting. It would be inaccurate to say that in The Desk Set she does everything but recite Hiawatha, because she does recite Hiawatha. She also recites, in jive rhythm, Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight. She floors an efficiency expert with her knowledge, she has a laughing fit, she has a drinking scene. Again and again she says practically nothing and makes it seem funny. She almost, but not quite, renders the playwright's job superfluous...
...performers as Dave Brubeck and "Wild Bill" Davison (appearing next week). Its range of transient musicians (which has also included ballad-singer Josh White) and the club's usual minimum puts Storyville in its own special class, although its present show is very similar musically to Boston's new rhythm form...
...recently forsaken good jazz for southern fried chicken and employs such showpieces as songstress Jerry Southern and occasional rhythm and blues bands (with semi-jazz overtones) like the currently featured group of Herbie...
...coronary artery, cutting off the blood supply to one section of the heart muscle. If the patient is moved too soon after such an attack he may die of any one of a variety of immediate causes: a state of shock, ventricular fibrillation (a disorder of the heart rhythm in which the heart ceases to act as a pump) or, less often, the choking of the heart's action from the leakage of blood through the ruptured wall into the sac around the heart...
...Shake, Rattle n Roll!" To a few these words mean nothing. But for ten million American teen-agers they are an invitation to the biggest dance craze to sweep the nation since the jitterbug: Rock n Roll. Though its roots are deep in the Rhythm and Blues of the South, Rock n Roll, with its "big beat," is an entirely new kind of music...