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Squeezing the 17 members of the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis big band onto the tablecloth-size stage of Manhattan's Village Vanguard is like trying to wedge the master singers of Nuremberg into Rodolfo's garret hole in Paris. The jam requires the four trumpeters to stand against the rear wall all night long. If he is not careful, a sax player can easily get a shot in the ear from a sliding trombone...
...would be worth waiting a decade for. She retains her vast resources of energy and intelligence. Yet she has altered in appearance and style. Her face is still lovely, but it has assumed a melancholy dignity, no longer fresh, but not quite old, like a fine linen tablecloth preserved for special occasions. Her acting is neither shrewd underplaying nor is it larger than life; it is exactly life-sized. She no longer indicates suffering, she defines...
...persuade the National Assembly to repeal it. His chances are only fair, and meantime Frenchmen must watch themselves. Aimed at ever more ridiculous targets, the 87-year-old law was recently invoked to arrest a diner at a provincial bistro for drawing a caricature of De Gaulle on a tablecloth, an amateur ceramist for portraving him on an ashtray, a drunk for criticizing him in a bar, and an unsuspecting man in the street for shouting "Hou! Hou! (Boo! Boo!)" at a passing presidential motorcade...
...look of London," tools around town in a spiffy blue Aston Martin DB 5. He lives in a high-walled house in the city's prosperous St. John's Wood neighborhood -oddly furnished, for a Beatle, in a tastefully quaint style, including an old-fashioned lace tablecloth on the dining-room table-and has daily bouts of "bashing" at the piano, which he has never quite learned to play...
...none of them said anything. So I asked why. The answer was that years ago somebody talked and got fired." At dinner with one European executive, Jean Bourgeois, Geneen made it clear that he expected his people to start talking. Says Bourgeois: "I was drawing diagrams all over the tablecloth for an hour. He just kept on asking questions...