Word: slam-bang
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From Deutsche Grammophon conies Tchaikovsky's Concerto No. I in B-flat minor, recorded last November with Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic, which is both surprising and gratifying for its underplaying of the work's slam-bang heroics...
Reds' Squeaker. In game seven the pace barely diminished as the Reds, on the strength of slam-bang base running by Rose and decisive hits by Tony Perez and Joe Morgan, won a squeaker and the championship. The Boston Globe said it all the next day in a frontpage banner headline: REDS WIN-BUT WHAT A YEAR WE HAD! And what a Series...
Havens said he was surprised he had had so much trouble. "I thought he would be nothing but a slam-bang man, but he turned out to be good," he said. "But I wasn't playing very well anyway...
...year-old Ruby Keeler's artful tap dancing in No, No, Nanette (which opened on Broadway in January and is still playing to packed houses) that provided the real reveille for taps. Almost from the moment that Ruby clacked back into the limelight, percussive, slam-bang tap, which had languished for nearly 40 years, was popular again...
...First, it gives Shelter an intellectual gloss: Mick or Keith's contemplation suggests the burden of self-consciousness, a filmed discourse on the relation of self to representation, etc., etc. Naturally this is all glitter; what such a schema really does here is allow the filmmakers to cut another slam-bang rock 'n' roll number in every four or five minutes without risking a stylistic break. That way the sequences of Melvin Belli negotiating for the Stones, virtually the only explanation tendered in the entire film concerning who is responsible for what, are not permitted to drag on at "unnecessary...