Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, it will be the most innovative of any White House wedding. Then, to Purcell's Trumpet Tune and Air, Tricia, in her Priscilla of Boston gown, will climb the curving south stairs on Eddie's arm, followed by the rest of the bridal party, including Matron of Honor Julie Eisenhower...
Staying in Tune. The fact that jazz is being marked and measured by the schools will lend it a certain stability that it never had before. The big danger, of course, is that, like so many other folkloric subjects in academia, jazz could wind up fully preserved but essentially dead on the page...
...delayed triplets, skimmed notes, quarter-tone vibratos and other "words" in the jazz vocabulary. Says Clarinetist Jimmy Giuffre, head of the Jazz Ensemble at N.Y.U.'s School of Education: "It's amazing how many of them can benefit by being taught the little things-like staying in tune...
...found on late-night television. Those who dig good-natured buffoonery and the chitchat of West Coast showfolk go for Competitor Merv Griffin. Viewers who want to see briskly organized quasi-journalistic interviews watch David Frost's excellent syndicated talk show, a two-time Emmy Award winner. Those who tune in Carson do so mainly to watch a consummate comedian scoring off guests who might as well be dummies, and often are. Cavett lacks Frost's effusiveness and Carson's one-man showmanship; his fans turn him on because he and his guests tend to be the most interesting...
...late 1920s, Duncan was not impressed: "It looked like nothing, like a potato on a string." So he devised a slip string that let the wooden "potato" spin, registered the name Yo-Yo and embarked on a high-power promotion campaign. Youngsters looped the loop to the tune of up to $7,000,000 annually in sales for Duncan. Although he made another fortune by manufacturing parking meters, Duncan's Yo-Yo firm was forced into bankruptcy after his retirement...