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...altoist, wins all the jazz polls in Japan; few foreigners can handle an alto sax with as much feeling and expertise as he can. He has great emotional range. On Davs of Wine and Roses, his tone was liquid, and smooth as marble; on Miles Davis' So What, he spat and screamed in a breathtaking solo. Watanbe (who is really good enough to play with anyone) had excellent support: the melodic, unpretentious piano of Brian Cooke, Saltonstall's bass, and Billy Elgart's drums. Trumpeter Ken Houk still has problems making himself understood; but he is moving away from...
...warning buzzer for Round 7 rang, and Cassius mentally began ticking off the seconds to the bell. Across the ring, Liston spat out his mouthpiece. Clay blinked: Liston was not coming out. With a wild whoop, Cassius leaped to his feet, gloves high above his head. The fight was over-and Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. was the new heavyweight champion of the world. Round the ring he danced, leering down at the sportswriters and bellowing gleefully: "Eat your words...
...likes a derby find one when the time comes for a new hat? Rarely. So he buys a soft felt, because that is all there is to buy. And whatever happened to the all-white suit, a favorite of President Harding? Where is the Chesterfield, the spat, and the well-starched evening shirt? The Unbuttoned Look. But such changes are relatively glacial, and the menswear industry wistfully eyes the process of seasonal obsolescence in women's fashions. The makers of men's clothes have had their successes, for instance, in the spectator sporting look...
...service in Corpus Christi's White Plaza Hotel that she vowed: "I'll build a hotel right beside the White Plaza. I'll build it taller, and I'll stand on top of my hotel and spit on the White Plaza." She built-and she spat...
Mann came into his own after Vice President Nixon was stoned and spat upon in Caracas and Castro rose to power in Cuba in 1958. He was then serving as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, and he took a leading role in the U.S. analysis of what was going wrong in Latin America. There was no doubt in Mann's mind; economically, Latin America was still a continent of a few thousand haves and millions of have-nots living under the remnants of a feudal system inherited from Spain and Portugal. After World War II, however, Latin...