Word: torridity
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While washing down Southern fried chicken with orange juice in Charlotte, N.C., torrid Trumpeter Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, a blower of wild-valved cadenzas that could never be confused with the strains of Bandleader Guy ("the sweetest music this side of Heaven") Lombardo, double-crossed his own feverish admirers. Between gulps, Satchmo satchmoed: "Lombardo's the greatest. He is relaxin'. He got a good style, and he ain't tryin' to fool nobody. The new cats around now, they ain't provin' nothin...
Throughout the play, they and the general speak out ideas about loyalty, trust, obligation; and though some of the ideas are disguised as fooling, and the emotion sometimes breaks through in torrid verbiage, more often the lines seem cold and academic. They are important ideas, challouging, but they seem out of books, not warm breasts...
...string sections had strength and clarity, its winds played with ease and flexibility. The full 75-piece orchestra could build to a battering climax and-often a lot more difficult-hush to a whispering pianissimo. The program was conventional, except for one of Brazilian Composer Villa-Lobos' torrid Bachianas Brasileiras. But the playing was of the caliber that makes such big-name performers as Helen Traubel, Yehudi Menuhin and Artur Rubinstein, recent soloists with the Florida, glad to return for more...
...Pili" Flamenco (Pedro Jimenez, cantador; Mario Escudero, Alberto Velez, guitars; Esoteric). Cantador Jimenez (El Pili) shouts his uninhibited incantations while the guitars, torrid and teasing by turns, strum their gypsy rhythms. Full of authentic Andalusian excitement...
What was left of the CRIMSON board rallied around to wage a torrid scoop- skirmish with the rebel sensationalists. The "100 Days War" finally came to an end by June when the Journal-ists had had it financially and academically; the victorious Crime emerged a far more modern and readable paper than it had been before the schism...