Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wish I could be so enthusiastic about the rest of the concert. Mozart's 29th Symphoney suffered from out-of-tune high notes by the violins. The horns nearly saved the day with, mirabile dictu, a splendid performance--until the very end, when an ascending passage brought on the inevitable...
...tune of The M.T.A...
...they do put up with their world, the college students do so mostly to put it down, cheering on in traditional collegiate fashion the impudent and the impertinent. Sardonic Singer Tom Lehrer remains a remarkably long-lived favorite, with five current records to skip study by. A recent Lehrer tune: "Doin' the Vatican rag/ Get in line in that processional/ Step into that small confessional/ There the guy who's got religion'll/ Tell you if your sin's original." Another favorite is urbane, eccentric Woody Allen, who is currently flipping the filmniks by writing...
...line with the increasing tolerance of American life, Negro-Jewish-Irish dialect jokes are just about dead, at least in public. More in tune is Negro Comedian Dick Gregory's definition of North and South: "In the South, they don't care how close I get as long as I don't get too big. In the North, they don't care how big I get as long as I don't get too close." Despite the disappearance of the old ethnic comedy, though, some sub rosa jokes still thrive, on the assumption that only...
...test pattern with which to start the morning is Barbara Walters, comely regular on the Today show. Her skin should be olive, her anchor desk light mahogany. The set is still performing 17 hours later if Johnny Carson signs off sunburned behind a light green desk. For fans who tune in late on thin-skinned shows, color Lassie strawberry blond and Batman's tights puce, his cape true blue...