Word: rhythms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five very virile people. Everything we do is to the hilt. If it's a chord, it's the most beautiful chord. If it's a dance, it's the most exciting dance. It's dizzy-making-loaded with personality. It's rhythm, energy, humor, vitality, and sex all wangled into one." Also wangled: shades of Bea Lillie, Agnes de Mille, Noel Coward and Mime Angna Enters...
...fully in its dynamic quality, beauty of composition, and use of expressive color. "Then the Lord answered Job out the Whirlwind" provides an example. Beneath the figure of God, the bodies of Job's friends bend, and their backs and the long, curved lines of the whirlwind form a rhythm of line which focuses the eye on the divine figure. His outstretched arms and stern face at once accuse and protect. The deep blue of the sky highlights the figures and at the same time expresses the mystery and fearfulness of heaven, while the whirling lines intensify the movement...
Early on the fifth day, just after New York's skyscrapers caught the shine of a bright blue autumn morning, teletypes clacked in all police stations, ordering flags flown at half-mast. Signal gongs in all firehouses began beating out the 5-5-5-5 rhythm which heralds the death of firemen and of great public servants. Newspapers began spilling off the presses with the black headline: LAGUARDIA DEAD...
Square Bop. Least known of radio's troubadours is Dick Farney, 25, a dark-eyed Brazilian baritone whose greatest claim to fame is his invention of the phrase "square bop" (a bad accompanist with a surface sense of rhythm, who confuses crooners...
Twitchy & Bouncy. In 1932, Jackie Smith, then 16, sat in Los Angeles' Cocoanut Grove gaping at Bing Crosby and the Rhythm Boys. Then & there he swore an oath: "I'm going to make it my life's work to get on that stage." Within three months, Jack's life's work was completed, when he and two other high-school kids were signed to sing at the Grove. Twelve years later, Jack was still a promising young crooner. Last week his twitchy, bouncy tenor was being gargled for its third consecutive year...