Word: tana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tale loups along wi' a high jink an' diddle, an' forbye 'twill gie the whole bairntime a blype o' kecklin an' snirtlin. Attour, the spunkie singin' o' Brochan Lorn Tana Lorn an' the sicht o' the banks an' braes o' bonnie Argyll in sic a spairge o' green an' gowd is like to hae the harigals out o' ony mon wi' a drap o' Scottish bluid, an' that's the fu' graip o' gulravage...
...first contestant was a tall blonde from Oregon with a willowy Grace Kelly look. When she rose from the piano after playing Brahms's Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, the ovation was led by the usherettes at the rear of the hall: only three years ago. Pianist Tana Bawden had been a Carnegie Hall usherette herself. But after the slim, curly-haired young man from St. Louis played Prokofiev's Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, the ovation was even louder: at intermission a Carnegie Hall stagehand was making book on him in the lobby...
Contrived & Documentary. That realism is not necessarily all is illustrated by the retrospective portfolio of photographs (see pp. 59-66). Of the twelve shown, at least half are contrived rather than documentary. Tana Hoban used a professional model for her sun-splashed shot of a little girl. Its lighting is reminiscent of the impressionistic paintings of Renoir et al., and its atmosphere is that of a powder puff. Aaron Siskind's closeup of peeling paint is not supposed to look like paint alone; it is a faintly sinister pattern reminiscent of easel pictures by the German surrealist Max Ernst...