Word: snakeskin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cronies. "I couldn't afford to have stars for the band," says Hines, "so I had to make them." He nurtured dozens of first-rate musicians; Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker used the band as a laboratory for the newly emerging bebop. In 1940, stepping high in snakeskin shoes, a diamond tiepin and purple tie, Hines hit the road-just in time to witness the demise of the big-band era. The years thereafter were largely one continuous round of playing with various combos. He dyed his greying temples 'black, staged lavish press parties to promote...
...Marisol, with her Latin Garbo looks, is an avant-garde celebrity in her own right. She has co-starred in Andy Warhol's film of uninterrupted osculation, The Kiss, and shown up at black-tie museum openings wearing such outfits as a silver snakeskin pants suit. But for all the splash she makes, Marisol is a mystery...
...toad jumped down the patient's throat, he was clearly a malingerer. If not, he was truly a victim of that all too common African malady, nightmare. The toad stayed put, so Dr. Thuita smeared acacia gum across the patient's brow, slapped on a dried snakeskin, and advised him to take a long swim. Prognosis: excellent...
...bony build, that dimpled chin, those big blue wisecracks. He, in turn, was more entranced than Khrushchev by her cancan, and-in another scene of the film-must have got ideas when she slid sensually down from the branches of the Tree of Life, dressed in blue-green moltable snakeskin, a big red apple in her hand...