Word: twig
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Twig or Liver. Bresler and Duddy worked with her for five weeks, including several long sessions at the Persian Room after it closed at 2 a.m. so that "she could absorb the atmosphere." She went through 60 songs while Bresler and Duddy shouted, "Stand up straight! . . . Move your arms! . . ." Choreographer Peter Gennaro was enlisted to check her body movements, and Sound Inc. wired her into the latest in echo chambers. Then, after a break-in week in Columbus, Bobbe, now 20 lbs. lighter, opened last month at the Plaza...
...Ford, Esso, Chesterfield) and are currently working on a musical. But they have never lost their love for nightclubs, especially since they command up to $20,000 for an act. The important thing, as Duddy says, is "being inspired by the personality we work for. Not all people will twig you-excite you. And when there is no fun in show business, it becomes chopped liver." Or baloney...
...accordingly. His natives are not the usual faceless blacks but human beings whose capacity for violence the hero quickly matches. In the script, sparely written by Clint Johnston and Don Peters, a few scraps of English dialogue and African dialect count for less than the surprise of a snapping twig or the insistent throb of drums, injected into the bloodstream of the film like so many shots of adrenaline. Without insulting modern Africa, Naked Prey writes the wild poetry of its past in raw colors...
Three leaves, on a twig from a branch...
...works as familiarly as she would about people in her family, which of course they were. Scarlatti, she says, "is the only composer who reminds me of the playfulness of a cat, and he does not suffer from this comparison. We all have seen a kitten play with a twig. It is impossible to describe its grace, charm, vivacity and inventiveness." Couperin's work, she observed, has "an immutable and restricted frame. He moves in it with ease, as did the actresses and dancers of the past, even though they were tightly laced in their corsets." As for Saint...