Word: shivers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jonah works his muted way through the numbers his fans want to hear-Rose Room, 76 Trombones, Too Close for Comfort, and his signature, Mack the Knife. Throughout, Jonah juggles the symbols of his success-the bagful of mutes through which he makes his trumpet whisper and wail, growl, shiver and soar...
...Dance Halls. The recorded sound is muddy and the selections are uneven, but at its best the album offers a fascinating sample of some fine, forgotten talents (including Billie and Dee Dee Pierce) and an evocation of the smoky nights when the splintery little dance halls used to shiver to the oldtime barrelhouse love laments: "Ah got mah big fat momma/Mah li'l skinny momma, too/Yes, mah li'l skinny momma/She knows just what...
...against his advice. When he descended on her German location not long ago to demand script changes and shower presents, Greco purred by phone from her hotel room: "You can't come up. Wait there and I might come down." Then she went to bed, leaving Zanuck to shiver alone on the terrace in the autumn night. ¶ Sailors' eyes clicked like gyro-repeaters in a flank-speed turn as Cinemermaid Esther Williams, sheathed in tight red slacks and sweater, pranced aboard the Navy submarine U.S.S. Trout in New London, Conn. Purpose: to play hostess...
Then, suddenly, dramatically, the silence was rent in shiver. The phone! It was ringing! Again...
...hung up and I went to bed again, but this time I could not sleep. My brain was a riot of surmise. When the phone rang, again, as of course it did in a matter of moments, a shiver of fear transfixed every inch of my body. A woman again. 'See here,' I greeeted the inevitable query. 'This must stop. I am not Marrowitz, madam, nor is this his market.' This time I hung up the phone...