Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Divinity, Master of Arts, Doctor of Law and Prime Minister of the Gold Coast, waved a white handkerchief to his countrymen as they fought to touch the hem of his tunic. Then, as the band hit the groove, he jigged his broad shoulders in time to the whirling rhythm, and passed on, exalted. "You see," cried a delirious Gold Coaster, grabbing the arm of a wondering white man, "it is real-REAL! Real democracy. He is one of us. A man of the people. Now that you have seen, you must understand: we can govern ourselves...
...Director Anthony (Bend of the River) Mann has richly fleshed out the picture with the red meat of action. Shot in the Colorado wastelands, the plot is unfolded almost entirely with the camera rather than with words. A striking exercise in violence, it is a western with real form, rhythm and authentic style. Best sequence: a three-way shooting match between Ryan, Stewart and Meeker up & down a cliff jutting over a raging, impassable river...
...score for On the Town, his music is a pleasant change from the trite insipidity of current show tunes. "Wrong Note Rag" piques the ear with delightful dissonance, and in "Pass That Football," a tribute to the well-paid college athlete, the eloquent stupidity of Bernstein's lumbering rhythm is as comic as the lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. While the intricacy of some of his music challenges both the lyricist and the singer's enunciation, Bernstein can write simple and memorable melodies. Wonderful Town has at least two songs hard to forget--"A Little Bit of Love...
Jimmy Wood, the house bass man and Jo Jones at the traps are both fine rhythm men who got a bit on their own when the spirit moves them. These three provide a strong beat for the smooth trumpet work of Ruby Braff...
...transplants to the Rhine region that offensive maneuver developed by the Russians in White Russia against the Germans in 1944, and grants them [the Russians] the same concentration of forces and rhythm of advance, such an attack . . . would be capable of reaching Paris in 23 days...