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...black-tied and begowned guests, who could hardly sit still for the fast rhythm, pushed back their gilt chairs and began dancing. The floor did not empty until 2:15 a.m. Ellington had set the pace himself in one of his songs: "Praise God with the sound of the trumpet./Praise God with the psaltery and harp/And dance, dance, dance, dance, dance...
...shot to insult them from a lecture platform? "I think it's a love-hate relationship," says Al Capp, the raspy-voiced creator of Li'I Abner. "Kids want to be kicked." At 59, the onetime liberal has developed a whole new career touring campuses to trumpet his grouchy, anti-youth message. Familiarity generates deeper contempt. "The more I see of students," he says, "the more I dislike them...
...Family Stone took a three-months hiatus earlier this year while their trumpet player, Cynthia, Robinson, recuperated from surgery. During that time, Sly, who writes, arranges and produces the Family Stone music under his real name of Sylvester Stewart, prepared the group's new single and fourth album. But rather than replace Cynthia or go on without her, three months of lucrative bookings were cancelled. The Family Stone, is, indeed, a family...
...trumpet Pristeen, a new product of the Warner-Lambert Pharmaceutical Co., whose sales of Listerine, Roiaids, Bromo-Seltzer and some 1,500 other items added up to more than $700 million last year. Pristeen is, the ads say, "a vaginal spray deodorant" that ought to "be essential to your peace of mind about being a girl." Warner-Lambert executives claim that the multimillion-dollar Pristeen print media campaign is bigger than that for any other new toiletry product in 1969. Pris-teen's chief competitor is FDS (for Feminine Deodorant Spray), a similar product manufactured by suburban Chicago...
...Novara (1962), his long fingers fluttered, his hands twirled, his palms undulated in an assortment of uniquely personal and specific hand signals. Clenched fists brought forth hard, crashing sounds. He touched index finger to thumb to produce tiny streams of pizzicato noises. Occasionally a player would press down a trumpet valve without blowing, and let it go just for the click. Or another would blow through a trombone to achieve a breathy effect. There were prolonged single notes and furious tonal scurryings up and down the scale. Yet the Peabody Contemporary Ensemble blended it all into a fascinatingly rich texture...