Word: sweeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sweet it was-the dull Republican convention in Miami. At least the newsmen didn't need Blue Cross...
With his pouty lips, upswept pompadour and downswept jowls, he bore scant resemblance to the lissome heroine of NBC's comedy I Dream of Jeannie. Yet sure enough, there was George Wallace in living color at Jeannie's usual time, dispensing his own brand of sugar-sweet demagoguery in his first nationwide TV appeal. For all the contrast, the substitution of George for Jeannie was bizarrely apt. For like the star of the show-a genie-Wallace is a specter that both major parties would prefer to see back in the bottle...
...father died at 36. His father died at 36. And his father died at 32. I'm in a little better shape than my father, and I can do a lot in 16 years." With that, Pitcher Denny McLain goes whomp, whomp on the pedals ?and the sweet organ music floats past...
...BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN PARIS (Columbia, two LPs). Brel writes and sings in French, but his approach to life travels well. He attacks indifference, loneliness and unhappiness the way a windmill attacks the air, stirring up little tempests with whirring music and sharp imagery. Juxtaposing sweet, lyrical melodies with the words of protest and defiance, he speaks of "illness, war, the young ones, myself." A quartet of empathetic American performers interpret Brel in English with inventive arrangements and passionate delivery. The hopeful Bachelor's Dance (La Bourrée du Célibataire), the chagrined...
...meaning of flying ants." Relentlessly staging a Job-like trial-by-humiliation, Armah daubs "the man" with spit, phlegm and sweat. Rot and stink-the look and smell of corruption-rise up from every page. It is a classmate, Koomson, who perfumes all the putrefaction with the sweet smell of his success as a self-serving official of the new regime...