Word: upbeat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back the high-cheekboned, full-lipped face on the swan neck and gave out with a brassily exuberant Everything's Coming Up Roses. From that the voice could sink to a smoky purr in a slow Too Much in Love or take on a rasping burr in an upbeat All or Nothing at All. In a white fringed shawl Songstress Carroll sat with a single spot shining on her tawny face while she sang a moving set of folk songs with powerfully restrained drama. Later she was on her feet again belting out a Heat Wave with the raucous...
...innuendo. Singing entirely in French, he baited his audiences last week into a wonderful medley of moods. In Ma Môme, Ma P'tite Môme he was every woman's protective lover, as his shoulder and arms curved in a possessive embrace; in the upbeat La Marie-Vison, about the perils of coveting a mink coat ("There must be other ways for a girl to keep warm"), he expressed the wisdom of the cafes in the lift of an eyebrow, the cynical, gallic turn of a wrist...
...Upbeat. Eva is 18, apple-cheeked. a bandit (tomboy) in her native Polish village ; on her mother's urging, she decides to put the dreaded camps-of-no-return far behind her and to pass as a Christian. By a fast shuffle of the cards of identity, she turns up in Austria as Katarina Leszczyszyn, a Ukrainian D.P., peasant-merry and eager for work. An Austrian railroad executive and his wife hire her as a maid, and she does so well that they want to adopt her. Ironically, doctors find Eva "a perfect specimen of the Aryan race." (Author...
...trap, of course, snaps on Eva herself. The next stop is the Auschwitz concentration camp. Nesting at the end of the line for Eva are true love and a family in Israel. From the moment she bounces into view, no reader can doubt that her ending will be upbeat...
...Soft Sell (Paul Horn, woodwinds; Tommy Loy, French horn; Jimmy Rowles, piano; Shelly Manne, drums; Don Bagley, bass; Dot). A suave and discreet group worries through wistful laments such as Paul's Blues and upbeat numbers such as It's Cooler Inside. Pianist Rowles's feathery acrobatics are a lyric delight, but the real news here is Newcomer Loy, who can cajole his French horn into swinging solos or softly twine it about Paul Horn's alto flute...