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When I Stop Loving You (Frank Sinatra; Capitol). The breeze that accompanies a few welcome cliches might waft this melodious ballad into popularity...
...such a flimsy plot, Lehmann drapes a super production involving 160-odd voices, 13 changes of scene, 94 stage hands, 37 electricians and some 100 supers. There is a showgirl chorus line, and eight special ballets. Flowery perfumes, concocted to match Weber's music, waft through the theater. In Act II there are no fewer than nine women suspended on nearly invisible wires above the staga ("They reminded me of airplanes waiting to land," said one reviewer...
...place "Gallows Knoll." And he had meant no offense when he turned on the music. He just liked to hear hillbilly music, and turned the radio up so that he could listen as he worked in his yard. Besides, he was not happy to hear the recorded hymns that waft from the cemetery's public-address system every Sunday. "It boils down to this," he explained. "I've plots in that cemetery, and I'll probably be buried there when I die. But I don't like being in the middle of a cemetery when...
...precisely 9:32 p.m., sometimes a few seconds later, the gentle tones of a battery of diesel locomotive horns waft among the grinding multitude, and a tall man strides through blowing taps between two blades of grass. He's pretty good. As you walk out the door a girl frisks you with her eyes, to see if you're stealing any books. They've got to be careful; one guy last year started sewing pages of Gibbon's Decline and Fall in his topcoat lining, and he had sent the first volume to the bindery and was half way through...
...testing the 30-odd ingredients of a perfume such as Chanel No. 5, not all the smells that waft up to the Great Nose are pleasant. To "fix" the perfume by uniting other ingredients, perfumers use such sour or fetid-smelling substances as musk, castoreum (made from beavers' testicles), ambergris (a secretion in the sperm whale intestine), and civet glands. Explains Beaux: "Pepper and salt don't taste pleasantly when taken alone, but they enhance the taste of a dish." Beaux gives each essence the nose test because some scents will last after a week of exposure, while...