Word: uprighted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very unsettling for the quiet, fastidious musician, who rises by 5 a.m. every day to begin working at an upright piano in his suburban Paris apartment. The son of a Marseille postal inspector, he learned piano and violin from his father, entered the Marseille Conservatory at ten, and soon seemed headed for the life of a concert pianist. Instead, he veered off into a jazz career at 17, eventually became interested in the wider instrumental palette and richer sonorities of pop arranging. Established though he was in the profession, he remained a blank to the public, since French disk jockeys...
Even on your first trip to a skin flick parlor, what first strikes you is not the bare bosom on the screen, but the people in the audience. There are about fifty lean men, sitting bolt-upright and silent, and scattered evenly throughout the theatre. Un-written skin flick code says no one may sit within three seats of anyone else, even on crowded weekends...
...little half-smiles in all directions, Sandy is supposed to be a delicious young thing who picks up men and takes them home to share her bed for a month at a time in order to alleviate their hang-ups, or whatever. Anthony Newley is supposed to be an upright box manufacturer who becomes Mr. November...
...body hair became least overheated and ran down the most game; through a process of evolutionary selection, man gradually shed his furry coat entirely. Those who competed most effectively with the stronger and swifter carnivores of the open spaces were those who began to walk and run in an upright position, increasing their speed and freeing their hands to grasp weapons of the hunt. Those who learned to outsmart their four-legged competitors were the ones whose brains grew larger and whose maturation rate slowed down, extending their childhood and giving them more time to learn the lessons of survival...
Along with 54 other hopefuls at the annual Miss World contest in London, Peru's lissome (35-23-35) Madeleine Hartog-Bel managed to stay upright through four preliminary rounds. But she swooned gracefully away when she was named the winner. Smelling salts brought her to for the presentation of a $7,000 check and a ceremonial visit to the Lord Mayor at Guildhall. Next will come a trip home for Christmas to the family cattle ranch in Piura, said Madeleine, who sold her car to get air fare to Paris to begin a career as a model...