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Word: roguish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Click of Corks. The close-cropped, woolly head and the sleek white Fifth Avenue gown come from different worlds, but the combination has a charm and grace of its own. In a ballad, she maintains the clean, classic phrasing of a church singer, she can be roguish in a West Indian ditty about a naughty flea, and she can make a chilling lament of A Warrior's Retreat Song-"Jikele maweni ndiyahamba/Jikele maweni indiyahamba," which she says suggests, "We've had it, we can't make it." Memory brings back the "Back of the Moon," a black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: Good to My Ear | 2/1/1960 | See Source »

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