Word: romps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...professionals would kill the goose because they banged out nothing but noisy chords," he says. "Today, the professionals do more than that -they do filigree work, background and single-string playing that bring out the undeveloped qualities of the instrument." Concert Banjoist José Silva, whose educated banjo can romp through complicated pieces like the Hungarian Rhapsody and Poet and Peasant, loves his instrument for its warm humanity-about as far from the denatured ickiness of an electric guitar as he can get. "The banjo is a wild thing," he says. "You stroke it wildly, and that figure-eight gesture...
Horseplayers who turned up at the half-mile harness track one evening last week looked over the field in the $10,000 Runnymede Trot, put their money on "Little Joe" O'Brien and watched him romp home. Such confidence in Little Joe and his Hambletonian-bound colt Scott Frost is getting to be a habit. Just the week before, at Long Island's Roosevelt Raceway, the same pair were odds-on favorites when they won the $15,000 Old Country Trot. Today, when bettors back their judgment of the wagon ponies to the tune of $444 million...
...refuses to acquire the "matrimonial habits of good morning and good night and hallo dear. That's the end of love-habit." What stings Celia is the number of Arcangelo's past love affairs and the suspicion that she may be just one more sensual romp in the afternoon of a faun. The 36-year-old poet gives her a sign of stronger love and deeper trouble by making her the mother of his only child, a boy whom they name Michele. However, the child problem evaporates suddenly when an Oxford don who admires Arcangelo's poetry...
...Seven Year Itch. Though the ads promise more fun than the picture delivers, Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell help Director Billy Wilder make George Axelrod's comedy a fairly engaging romp (TIME, June...
...Seven Year Itch. Though the ads promise more fun than the picture delivers, Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell help Director Billy Wilder make George Axelrod's comedy a fairly engaging romp (TIME, June...