Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evening, Tin Pan Alley tunes, thumped and wheezed from a piano and an accordion, split the African darkness. The racket came from a rococo Moorish villa which soldiers in the area call "Souk*-el-Spaatz." But the concerts are only occasional. Most of the time Souk-el-Spaatz is a silent hive of conspiring and conferring men. It is the headquarters of the air war being waged by the Allies in Tunisia...
...puts his instrument to his mouth. For Tabuteau, it begins in his medieval-looking fourth-floor workshop. There he whittles to perfection the paper-thin, cigaret-shaped reeds on whose shaping and adjustment oboe tone heavily depends. A flawed reed can make even the best playing sound like a tin horn. Tabuteau spends hours every day scraping away with a razorlike knife...
...respects, a compensating substitute. That which it lacks in organization is made up for in keeness of competition. After all, the incentive of a first place in the chow line can hardly be compared with the nebulous reward of breaking an IC4A Record, or winning a little tin medal...
...Diego the most marked difference detween popular brands of World Wars I and II is the tendency to abandon women, lean instead towards insignia such as the tin-helmeted bulldogs symbolic of the Marine Corps. A grinning death's head with an aviator's flight helmet surmounted by a black cat is popular among service flyers. In San Francisco last week sailors were still asking for Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, but social-security numbers are more popular...
...repertory, by such experimental composers as Henry Cowell and Lou Harrison, was played last week by John Cage's orchestra of eleven, dressed in tails or black evening gowns. They used thundersheets, oxen bells, cowbells, cymbals, anvils, gongs, woodblocks, rice bowls, button gongs, rattles, claves, maracas, drums, flowerpots, tin cans, automobile brake drums. They not only tapped and beat their instruments, but shook and rubbed them and sometimes even immersed them in water...