Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...informed by a local yachtsman that a French naval yard near by had facilities to repair the boat's mashed propellers, "but they won't help you because it's a military base." Karim's response-"I am Prince Karim, the Aga Khan"-changed the tune, and next day, with the Taara seaworthy once more, Karim and Anouchka decided wouldn't it be lubberly to try again, and throttled off into the Mediterranean...
...High Fly. Manhattan's Five Spot Cafe, where this recording was made, apparently attracts some of the most indefatigable gabblers on the club circuit, but what cuts across the vocal static is well worth listening to, especially Billy Strayhorn's Star Crossed Lovers (the only tune not by Weston), a plaintive exercise for sax and piano...
...album cover claims-and they go about as far in international understanding as a rhythm section can go. As for Reinhardt. in such numbers as Bricktop, Beyond the Sea and his own Djangology, he is by turns piquant and fiery, still a master at gracefully dandling a tune...
...earliest panacea peddlers to cross the Rio Grande was Dr. John Richard Brinkley, the ''goat-gland" tycoon who exploited his failing listeners' yearnings for potency to the tune of some $1,000,000 a year before he died bankrupt...
Undoubtedly a board as impotent as New York's in the face of corruption, stagnation and inefficiency deserved to be fired. Investigators charged board employees with taking bribes from contractors to the tune of at least $1,000,000 a year. The chief of construction, a crony of Mayor Wagner's, was suspended. School Superintendent John J. Theobald himself was grilled (but not criminally charged) for using vocational high school students to build him a boat. But New York City's real problem lay in the anatomy of the system, the "overadministration" that afflicts big-city schools...