Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there was a gala dinner for family and friends at their villa in Glifadha, outside Athens; then they moved on to the Neraida Club for Jackie's introduction to Athenian night life. The dancing and bouzouki music went on until 7 a.m., with Jackie clapping spiritedly to the rhythm and raising toasts to the players. At one point, eavesdroppers heard her tell Ari: "I want to know every word of those beautiful songs. They're simply marvelous." And her birthday present...
...Chekhov in his late plays fused the "as it is" with "as it should be"; he took a moral position. True, he did adopt a quasi-realistic diction with its illogicalities, its wandering directions, its repetitions; but he was skillful enough to infuse it with a marvelous rhythm and a sort of poetic evocativeness. (This technique strongly affected the plays of our own O'Neill, Odets, and Hellman.) The director and the players--and, indeed, the audience-- must be able to catch unspecified implications, to apprehend not so much what is said as what is consciously or subconsciously thought...
...digitalis products, and then uses barbiturates for a while, his heart-medicine dosage should be checked, and possibly adjusted, twice. Barbiturates speed up the metabolism of digitalis-type drugs, which are critical within a narrow range. Even a modest overdose may precipitate a dangerous, abnormal heart rhythm...
DEAN MARTIN PRESENTS THE GOLDDIGGERS (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Leu Rawls, hero of rhythm-and-blues fans, is joined by Gail Martin (Dino's daughter) and Paul Lynde for another summer with the singing, dancing Golddiggers. Premiere...
...forgotten men of the orchestra than ever before. Among composers of the past, Hector Berlioz was perhaps the first to pay much attention to the symphonic battery of drums. Later on, Stravinsky and Bartok proved that percussionists could do more interesting things than simply thump out a basic rhythm. Nowadays such avant-gardists as Pierre Boulez, John Cage, Luciano Berio and Karl-heinz Stockhausen treat the percussionist as a performer with rights (and responsibilities) equal to any other soloist...