Word: tenderizers
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...bailiff, at court's opening, intoned: "God save the United States and this Honorable Court." She peered around the courtroom at the twelve men in the jury box, at old (79) Judge Albert L. Reeves rocking in his chair, at the spectators and the lawyers, and finally, with tender affection, at Carl Austin Hall. Plump Bonnie Heady smiled. Hall slumped down, his eyes turned toward the floor...
...Acme Newspictures in 1923, he never got the plushier assignments, because he refused to wear a necktie. Later, he freelanced for several New York papers, and saw the big city as it had rarely been seen before, with a clear but compassionate eye for its brutalities, follies and tender moments (some of the results were published in a successful photo book called Naked City). He would cruise Manhattan all night. Explains Weegee: "Good pictures are like blintzes. You gotta get them while they're hot . . . It's gotta be real...
Some critics who like their guitars complete questioned the truncated treatment ("Is Colin a sadist?" asked one solemnly). But they unanimously praised his brilliant draftsmanship and his tender use of color. Wrote Le Peintre: "A great artist . . . Behind his playfulness lies a lot of meditation and some particular mystery which is Colin's own invention...
Woody Herman at Carnegie Hall, 1946 (MGM, LP). Fifteen rowdy and tender numbers played by one of the swingingest bands of all. Herman's 1946 "Herd," for all its size and precision, sounds as flexible as a small jam band...
...broadcast of Verdi's Otello may well have been the finest performance ever heard on the air. Soloists Herva Nelli, Ramon Vinay and Giuseppe Valdengo sang as if they were in a state of musical exaltation, and the NBC Symphony's orchestral commentary was both dramatic and tender. Recently, after long refusing, Toscanini agreed to let RCA Victor make records from the monitoring transcription, and last week the three LPs were released. It is probably the Maestro's masterpiece...