Word: swing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...known about Kozlov except that he ranks coequal in the Kremlin hierarchy with First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan. Once an ardent Stalinist ("The Soviet people cannot for one moment forget the bloody intrigues of American imperialists who try to plunge mankind into a new world war"), he helped swing Communism's 130-man Central Committee behind Khrushchev in his key victory over the Stalinists in June 1957, has since risen rapidly in power...
...crepe paper-festooned dance hall behind the bar ("Ladies Will Not Be Let in at the Door Wearing Shorts or Slacks") sit a pianist, trumpeter, guitarist, bass fiddler. As the evening wears on and the smoke from the wall tables eddies through the room, the band is likely to swing with a pile-driver beat into some old favorites-Big Mamou or Shake It and Break It. The style, as raw and jolting as a shot of bootleg rye, offers the last authentic taste of the music that once helped make New Orleans the world's jazz capital...
...with contentment on the Bosnian mountains ringing their valley, gravely discussed public matters. The young men came to sing and joke, to flirt with passing girls or lean dreaming on the parapet. On such soft nights, a man on the bridge felt as if he were on a magic swing: "He swung over the earth and the waters and flew in the skies, yet was firmly and surely linked with the town and his own white house there on the bank with its plum orchard about...
Rabb and the players are fortunate to have the absolutely stunning, three-story set, complete with lanterns and garden swing, designed by William D. Roberts. And it takes Gilbert Hemsley's lighting very well, abetted in one night scene by four real flambeaux...
...period of Shakespeare's creative productivity covered the rich years from about 1590 to 1613. During this span the Renaissance style was on the wane, though still much in evidence; the Mannerist style was in full swing; and the Baroque style was in its vigorous infancy. Thus it is that Shakespeare's output reflects all three styles: in the tragedies, for example, Othello is Baroque, Hamlet and King Lear are Mannerist, and Romeo and Juliet is Renaissance...