Word: tom-tom
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...hors d'ocuvre. But the entree, naturally, is Reardon's portrait of Julia Child, the six foot tall throaty-voiced diva who brought bouillabaise to thousands of living rooms. Julia--who in college wanted to be either a novelist or a professional basketball player and liked to perform tom-tom dances, who sought during WWII to be trained as a spy and was eventually posted to Ceylon, who finally turned to cooking--Julia dominates the book...
...been written for the masses. So I wrote my first fan letter." A few months later, she heard about Mamet's play through veteran Director Mike Nichols, and contacted Mosher, with whom she and Penn had worked in a nonpublic, workshop staging of David Rabe's play Goose and Tom-Tom...
...time when, as he says, "there's a feeling of a little more substance in the air." The two U2 collaborations on the record (Testimony and the reactor-hot Sweet Fire of Love) were launched on little more than a wing, a prayer, a guitar riff, a tom-tom beat and a horn chart written by Gil Evans (Miles Davis' collaborator on Sketches of Spain). It is not only talent that makes these songs work, it's a finding of common ground between Robertson and the Dublin boys so sudden and intense that the discovery ignites the songs...
...Pope John Paul II, who last week was welcomed to Papua New Guinea by tribes from across the country's rugged highlands and by tom-tom drums pounding out the joyful news of his arrival. Few of John Paul's foreign journeys have offered such a kaleidoscope of contrasts as the ten-day, 24,000-mile trek across the outer rim of Asia and the South Pacific that he completed at week's end. In South Korea, he assumed the role of pastor; in Thailand, he served as a diplomat; to the islands...
...difficult for us to sound opinion. I am sure, however, that after a period of propaganda by the authorities in this country saying there is this danger, many Soviets will believe it. On the other hand, there is a kind of tom-tom system that operates here, and people do get their opinions from other sources, at least the opinion-makers in this system do, and they may have some doubts as to whether what is being put out as the official line is the whole truth...