Word: snatching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pianist Schaefer romp exuberantly, with the aid of assorted sidemen. through I Love Paris, Anything Goes, You're the Top, transforming these Broadway classics into a crackling bed of hot Coles. Arranger Schaefer's most improbable invention: a version of C'est Magnifique opening with a snatch of the Lohengrin wedding march...
...hipped, exotic beat that sounds part Latino, part Arab. When the song is played at Geneva's tonier-than-thou Chez Maxim's, aging bankers and their young girl friends go into curious convulsions on the dance floor; at least one U.N. functionary has been known to snatch up a tablecloth, wrap it around his waist and do a belly dance. In Paris the tune tumbles endlessly from Left Bank students' rooms; chefs abandon soufflés to hear it. From Stockholm to Sorrento, Bandleader Bob Azzam's Mustapha has spread like a rampaging fungus...
Ready for Men. Few of the bodies that the undertakers snatch from the drink have any re-use value; they are much too beat-up. But the Air Force pays Berger to go after every fragment; it doesn't want secret apparatus lying around on the ocean bottom, where it might be retrieved by unauthorized divers. Another reason is that the hunks of an unsuccessful missile can often tell why it failed. In 1958 a rocket engine exploded and showered the water off the Cape with thousands of small pieces. One of them, which was recovered after a long...
...simple two-step, the dance lends itself to any music with a steady ? beat -and allows for innumerable variations: after the basic Madison step is completed, the caller can ask for the Big M (see cut), for a snatch of the Charleston, for some cha cha cha, or for the step known as "the Jackie Gleason" (a broad parody of Gleason's away-we-go shuffle). When a pattern is finished, he may call: "Erase it," i.e., repeat the pattern in reverse. The variations often have a sports flavor, as in "the Wilt Chamberlain Hook," in which the dancer...
...brown to brighter colors; to Schuller, it suggested a hushed, dense background of woodwinds, interrupted by "the brighter yellow of the trumpets and high strings." Klee's famed Twittering Machine, which looks something like an inverted mobile from which fishing lures have been suspended, inspired Schuller to a snatch of serial music in which the orchestra beeped, squeaked and rasped like a rusty hinge while the muted brasses burped out shreds of sound. Little Blue Devil, a complex of overlapping triangles, rectangles and pentagons, suggested a perky blues mood. Arab Village, an aerial view in yellows and browns, inspired...