Word: trumping
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Everett saved his two trump cards for the second act, but he revealed to his attuned audience a series of high card student performers who injected new life into some of the old jazz standards. The two numbers which lingered longest in Sander's hot summer air were, no doubt, Ray Brown's "Is There Anything Still There," and Duke Ellington's stock favorite "Satin Doll." Brown's eloquent tune featured a deep sax solo in the Coleman Hawkins vein by Jim Scales, who unfortunately had to battle a couple of over-zealous trumpeters to be heard. "Satin Doll...
...pastime for weight lifters, body builders and ego trippers ... From work call to lunch hour, ironpushin' regulars hit the pile with predictable regularity ... To them, working out is a contest of who is the strongest, who is the baddest... As the sun slides down ... style is now trump and all hands hold the boss suit. Pump-up freaks are in the game; they rip off [lift after lift] until their muscles are swollen with blood and then, and only then, they strip to the waist. As they remove their shirts, a discerning eye weighs the audience reaction...
...floor of the Volkswagen; a police chief (Cliff Robertson) of a small town, pretty much stymied as he is pressed for a quick solution; friends and relatives of the victim, hysterical with grief, baffled over the brutality and arbitrariness of the killing. Then the film makers play their trump and pull themselves out of the hole...
...trump is called Franklin Wills, a clairvoyant who phones the police and volunteers his psychic resources to help solve the killing. He relates certain details of the crime only the police chief knew. The chief is suspicious, but he calls Wills in. Throughout the remainder of the investigation, he remains uncertain whether Wills is a madman, a visionary, an opportunist-or perhaps the murderer...
FREDERICK O. TRUMP...