Word: tubular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leukemia in 1957 at 35. Last week's performance, conducted by Richard Korn, featured Marimbist Chenoweth as soloist. A small woman (5 ft. 2 in.), she seemed dwarfed by her instrument-a 6-ft. tablelike frame supporting a graduated series of hardwood strips with a row of tubular resonators attached. But when she started to flail away with both wool and rubber-tipped mallets, Marimbist Chenoweth proved herself a virtuoso. Scampering from one end of the instrument to the other, she produced flurries of bell-like tones in a surprising dynamic range. As for the piece itself, it proved...
...with massive LP infusions of George Gershwin, massively publicized by a full throated chorus of movie and record company pressagents. With Samuel Goldwyn's Porgy and Bess about to be released, the record makers have pressed nearly 30 Porgy albums, ranging in style from Overstuffed Country Club to Tubular Cool. Columbia has issued excerpts from the sound track with Cab Calloway dubbed in as Sportin' Life in place of Sammy Davis Jr., who sings the role in the movie.* The sampling is generous, and the sound is refulgent, but most of the performances lack a properly dramatic cutting...
Self-Cleaning Lamp. General Electric introduced a tiny, tubular quartz lamp billed as "one of the most important basic improvements in incandescent lamps since Thomas Edison." The pencil-shaped tube lasts twice as long and is one two-hundredth the size of a standard industrial lighting lamp, does not grow dim throughout its life. Iodine vapor in the bulb prevents the formation of blackening carbon on the inside; the lamp's high operating temperature incinerates dirt that touches the outside. Because of their small size, the new lamps can be used to throw exact lighting patterns for show windows...
...sound--not a word, but a guttural hissing--and he saw that she had not teeth. The glistening lips came to meet his and attached themselves to him wih a suction stronger than death, and her shawl dropped, revealing no arms, but a long, coiled, viscous body, the tubular shape of a tapeworm, eagerly welcoming him into its embrace...
NEXT SUMMER'S SWIMSUITS for women will feature startlingly low-cut backs (down to the waist) contrasted with demure, high necks to cover up in front. In first trade showings, California swimwear makers are avoiding the new Parisian tubular look (TIME, Sept. 9), instead will draw in waists with belts...