Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...band music sounds like ragtime with hecklers, and when the Jug Band plays such oldtime tunes as Sweet Sue and Coney Island Washboard, the sounds it makes have a cheerful, giddy quality. Much of the band's appeal is in the delight its audiences take in watching it work all its contraptions. "You can make a noise on everything here," says Washboardist Muldaur, "but it's hard to play a tune...
Married. Ed Begley, 62, who won a 1962 Academy Award as the raucous Southern political boss in Sweet Bird of Youth; and Helen Jordan, 38, his agent's secretary; he for the third time, she for the second; in Las Vegas...
BRANDENBURG GATE: REVISITED (Columbia) is a noble effort on the part of the Dave Brubeck Quartet to co-exist with an orchestra in tunes from the quartet's standard repertory-In Your Own Sweet Way, Summer Song, and the opus magnus, Brandenburg Gate. An E for effort and a gentleman's C for middling success...
Blurred Nature. Gossipy as a hen, he makes cutting remarks about people who pass the table and then hails them aloud, saying, "You absolutely sweet and adorable man," or "Hello, you sweet son of a bitch." He mimics people with devastating and quite humorous precision. More often, however, he carps; and Harvey is really a phi beta carper...
Scientists have long admired the industrious ants that keep aphids as cows and milk them for their sweet "honeydew" secretion. Now a graduate student in entomology has added to the brief catalogue of insect husbandry Louisiana State University's Gary Ross has watched Mexican carpenter ants (Camponotus abominalis) protect caterpillars against their natural enemies and live on the juices that the caterpillars excrete. Though both parties benefit from the odd relationship, nature ensures that it is always brief: by the time they are 83 days old, the caterpillar cattle sprout orange-rimmed wings and fly away...