Word: tailor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shadows makes him the perfect sideman; last year he made 25 jazz albums, none of which listed him as leader. Among new recordings, three of the best have one thing in common: Flanagan's uplifting presence. On Moodsville's Make Someone Happy, he is the artful tailor who sews up the holes in Coleman Hawkins' aged zoot suit; on Columbia's "Jem," he makes lyric corsages and pins them all on Gerry Mulligan; and on Riverside's new adventure with...
...friendly spiders which abounded in his studio should not be disturbed (the maids hid behind the coal pile the mop used for brushing down spiderwebs). He was a patient and humorous father; explaining the meaning of duty to his son, he would recall his own boyhood as a tailor's son. "I had to shell green peas and I loathed it. But I knew that it was part of my life. If I hadn't shelled the peas, my father would have had to, and he would not have been able to deliver on time the suit...
...Wilkins is now visiting at Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research. Since abnormal or defective DNA molecules may cause other innate defects or disease, pioneers on today's frontiers of biochemistry and molecular medicine hope some day to reverse some human disorders by supplying tailor-made, corrective...
What disturbs many admirers of De Gaulle is that by going directly to the people he will plainly be circumventing the constitution that was tailor-made to his specifications four years ago; it specifically requires all constitutional amendments to be submitted to Parliament before going to a popular vote. But De Gaulle seemed grandly unconcerned. According to a tale making the rounds in Paris last week, the President was asked whether his reforms will not in fact be a "rape of the constitution." His reply: "Does one rape his own wife...
Gangster Manqué. When Miller keeps his voice (and his vice) down to a low howl, the book is good. Gentle accounts of his tailor father and his simple-minded sister are touched with skill, restraint and humor. More than the ranting, they help explain the near-psychopathic, angry compassion Miller felt for the sufferers in the suffocating world of Myrtle Avenue and Delancey Street. In a man more vicious, this anger might have made a gangster. In a man more conventional, it might have led to the kind of ambition that drove so many slum children to escape...