Word: waft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mike wound up a brief series of East Coast appearances designed to introduce them to their growing audience in the U.S. Festooned with colorful rugs and cluttered with instruments, the stages on which they appeared had the aura of gypsy encampments. That aura was heightened by an occasional waft of incense and by the presence of two girls known as Licorice and Rose (real names: Caroline McKechnie and Rose Simpson), who live, travel and perform with the band. Resplendent in beads, braid, silks and velvet, Robin and Mike wandered about, sipped tea, and spent interminable intervals tuning up. But once...
...sound of music will waft from many a playhouse, band shell or barn this week...
...music, as it were, of the American scene. Hardly anybody pays total attention to them; hardly anybody totally ignores them. Many, the very good and the very bad, force or insinuate themselves into the imagination. Even a reluctant viewer cannot quite resist the euphoria induced by airline ads that waft him up up and away, or travel spots, island-hopping in a wink of quick cuts, that drop him on a sun-splashed beach. Even while grumbling, he marvels at the dexterity, not to say ludicrous imagery, of a white tornado suddenly swirling through an untidy kitchen. He wakes...
...slightly raised platform a musician (Jeff Fuller) sits improvising, in an appropriate raga, a preludial alapa on his sitar. Gradually a number of young men enter, wearing leis of orange and yellow flowers, and assume yoga positions. As bowls of incense waft their frangance, the sitar is joined off-stage by the traditional tambura drone and tabla rhythms...
...Beaufort Scale, a moderate breeze (Force 4) is one that merely raises "dust and loose paper." A Force 10 gale causes "considerable damage to buildings." Somewhere between the two must be a wind of sufficient force to waft a heavyweight politician into active presidential candidacy. But how to recognize the draft? "It is very difficult, believe me," Nelson Rockefeller admitted last week...