Word: slackly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mexican Government practice to buy off influential generals of doubtful loyalty; and General Almazán has gallantly availed himself of this tradition. From Cárdenas he got lucrative concessions to build railroads, hotels, villages, roads (among them sections of the great Pan American Highway). He opened up slack Acapulco as a tourist resort. While his rival Camacho was suppressing Cedillo, Almazán took a handsome cut of the bandit's swag. Now a very rich man who lives in a flashy, gringo-haunted eyrie high above Monterrey, Almazán is tall, heavy but trim from...
...children to inform them of the society into which they were born and which has now been ruined. It is an honest and unobtrusively well-written story, full of unaccented human truth. The wildness and gloom of her husband's country oppressed her; the rigid social etiquette and slack business habits of his friends made her smile, the rituals of boar hunting on his 10,000-acre estate both thrilled and repelled her; his family's profound and narrow piety troubled her; the ignorance, poverty and knavery of his peasants disgusted her. Because she was a straight...
More Goodman repressings: This time "You Know" by the Trio. First good clip tempo with "Flash" Krupa showing the folks back home he can play. Second side much better with ideas, swing, and Today Wilson piano galore . . . Freddy Slack claims that he'd arranged "Rhumboogie" and that the Bradley band was playing it long before the Andrews Sisters did it. At any rate their recording of it is a good one . . . "I've Got Rhythm" by Horace Henderson is marked "Special Version"--we like the original better. "Shuffin' Joe" on the back...
...anchorman, around whose hip-belt the rope passed to a double-hitch... had to observe the opposing team. . . . He gave signals verbally or by facial signs and he had the all-important job of taking in the slack or letting out the rope, by skillful handling of the 'knot.' Anchormen sometimes had knee trouble and broken arches but not heart strain...
Planist Freddy Slack, besides doing arrangements and fumadiddling around with various of the boogie-woogie passages, is playing more plane than I have never heard him to before, and with the really terrific clarinet and trumpet takeoff men in the band, sole ideas are pretty well taken care...