Word: tuneless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great flaw in the movie is the music, which is tuneless, mawkish, and worthless. Bing, though a peerless song plugger, is left this time with a carload of goldbricks. He receives adequate and on pitch assistance from his leading lady, Rhonda Fleming, but as we said before, two times nothing is still nothing...
...insists that his students know the rules before they break them. He has the reputation of being averse to melody, and is a little sensitive about it. Once someone praised a rare tuneful passage in one of his string quartets. Said Piston, who doesn't consider himself exactly tuneless: "That's what I call, 'Don't throw me out in the snow, Father...
From the depths of space-too deep to be reached by astronomers' light-telescopes-mysterious bodies continually bombard the earth with radio waves. No one knows much about these tuneless, codeless, cosmic broadcasts, but the National Bureau of Standards hopes to find out more. Last week, at Sterling, Va., 40 miles from Washington, Standards was building a radio observatory to study the waves and their origin. In charge of the observatory is young (35) Grote Reber, who broke into radio astronomy by developing a hobby...
...steaming woods that crowd the engineer-made airdrome on Bataan, the monkeys chattered a tuneless obbligato to the bright-plumaged birds. Below them, sweating hard and grunting often, men in grease-stained coveralls worked over a handful of pursuit planes -the last, bullet-chipped remnant of Douglas MacArthur's Air Force. Now, after days of ingenious patching, the P-4Os were ready...
...through a similarly cacophonous, crossword concerto by Schönberg's pupil, Alban Berg. Stung by this new challenge, Krasner sent for Schönberg's piece and started in on it. For thankless months he sawed, plucked and stabbed away at its impossible chords and tuneless, jittery rhythms. "It was six months." said he, "before I began to understand it." But at the end of a year he had mastered this 30-minute-long chaos of caterwauling...