Word: shim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...himself. Take, for example, the series of electronic pieces that he recently presented in a special concert at the Electric Circus, a Manhattan discotheque. It was more carefully planned and carried out than most such performances, and it amounted to a kaleidoscope of the new Powell music. There were shim mering, post-Webern instrumental sonorities, crackling percussion, taped voices, and electronic twittering and rumbling-all interspersed with theatrical episodes such as a bearded man bouncing on a trampoline under flickering strobe lights...
...redeeming comic episode of the show is the muscular seduction of a D'humian intellectual by a girl called Sue Ann Rockefellow (Mary Louise Wilson), whose clincher in the clinch is, "Shim, you have a friend at Chase Manhattan." As the corn-pone Congressman says, "You fellahs should have known what was going to happen when you sent overdeveloped girls into underdeveloped countries...