Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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None was more aware of this than the derrick monkeys, roughnecks, rock hounds and pebble puppies sweating in the 130° heat at Hassi Messaoud. Not for pay alone, which averages $400 a month, but from a patriotic spirit of excitement, the 83 Frenchmen (average age, 25) faced the needling, bone-dry winds and the oven-hot, reddish-yellow sand of the vast desert. Working peacefully shoulder to shoulder with them were 134 Algerian Berbers...
Most experts agree that India will probably have to cut her London-held sterling balance to a rock-bottom $630 million sometime in the next few weeks. But this, in turn, will probably serve to make India's international creditors, both government and private, more reluctant than ever to lend her money or sell her goods...
...Wolfgang Wagner, by "objective sobriety"), the first yearning sighs of the orchestral prelude left little doubt that this Tristan was in expert hands. Dressed in tuxedo trousers and open-throated shirt, Conductor Sawallisch led his orchestra through a performance marked by a water-clear sense of orchestral relationships and rock-sure control. He attacked at a slower than usual tempo, underscored the sensuous quality of the music without letting his orchestra wallow in it. There were the usual first-night flaws. During the second-act love duet, the word über-mächtig "vanished without trace" from Tenor Wolfgang...
Paris Night Life (Columbia LP). A frantic musical tour steamy with atmosphere. It includes such international headliners as Jacqueline François and Juliette Greco, such local music-hall and cabaret favorites as Philippe Clay and Irene Lecarte. Item of three-star interest: "le rock 'n' roll" number, Alhambra Rock, bawled by Paris' chief exponent of "impétuosité frénétique," Magli Noël, in the choked wail of a wet-diapered infant...
...threw the beard, beret and bikini set of latter-day painters into a foot-stamping tizzy with a decision that no nudes will be shown in this week's Sixth Annual Arts Festival. Artists answered the challenge with a threat to stage an all-nude show at nearby Rock-port's Bearskin Neck, began peppering the local newspaper with impassioned protests ("As an artist I love what God created, and I never want to see pants on plants"). At week's end hard-pressed Festival Chairman Ken Gore announced that the ban was only against "questionable nudes...