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...Shalakos are beautiful. They are birds, about ten feet high, with turquoise heads crested with eagle feathers and mounted with feather-tipped buffalo horns. Their bulging ball-eyes roll majestically and their wooden beaks clack-clack as they glide and stomp through their dance of blessing, with a tinkling of bells worn at the knees of the dancers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Return of the Gods | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

...Ewell (Windin' Ball LP). Piano solos patterned after New Orleans' late King Oliver and played in the high honky-tonk tradition; such tunes as Weather Bird Rag and New Orleans Stomp sound almost like the real thing. The third Ewell LP by a young Chicago label...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Dec. 7, 1953 | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

Gilbert & Sullivan (London Films, Lopert) is a thoroughgoing stomp through the old Savoy. Though it is well known that one Gilbert & Sullivan opera is more than most companies can produce successfully, the British team of Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat (State Secret) have undertaken to produce almost all of them-and all at once, in this two-hour film-and to tell the life stories of Gilbert & Sullivan at the same time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 26, 1953 | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

John was so interested in her work that he almost ruined her next sculpture, a bust of his wife. Every few minutes he would stomp in, watch a while, then grumble "I've done 50 portraits of Dodo. I know how she looks, don't I? She has a flat place here. And he would punch his thumb into the clay. Says Fiore: "I couldn't keep him away." Finally she brought down a set of tools for the old painter, and he has been sculpturing ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: New Directions | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

...Berlin, 9,000 jazz fans crowded into Berlin's Sportspalast for the annual German jitterbug championship, watched husky Helga Haier, 21, and her real cool partner Dieter Heidemann, 20, stomp, slide and swivel their way to first place in a style that, by comparison, made many a U.S. practitioner of the art look like a whirling dervish with lumbago. ¶In Paris, two great American institutions-the quiz program and the striptease-were ingeniously fused. Every night, in a nightclub called L'Academic des Vins, a model named Mile. Genevieve appears, tastefully clad, on the stage while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFLECTIONS: Cultural Notes | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

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