Word: zipping
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...only useful purpose of Pal Joey is to serve as a vehicle for songs like "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered," "I Could Write a Book," and "Zip" and for Frank Sinatra. Sinatra can give life even to the remarkedly poor lines he is given and he does, of course, sing very well. He is quite effective as a night-club singer who substitutes his conquests over women for a financially prosperous existence. When Sinatra tells an unwilling chorus girl, "If you knew what you were throwing away, you'd cut your throat," hundreds of middle-age matrons nod silent agreement...
...finding a synonym would be difficult: "'Tis Pity She's a Paramour" or "'Tis Pity She's a Lady of the Evening" have neither the simplicity nor the zip of the original. It is too late now, but the HDC could have combined a tasteful community-wide promotion of the play with a provocative and money-making contest. Using an eye-catching photograph of the heroine and barring all English concentrators from the game, the contest posters might have looked something like this...
Died. Abe Lyman, 59, onetime bandleader at Hollywood's famed Cocoanut Grove, organizer of the Californians, a group known for zip and zest in the '20s, waltz and schmaltz in the '30s; of cancer; in Beverly Hills, Calif...
Beaumont regards his Mass purely as an occasional piece which can be used to "zip up" a congregation. Although it has not yet been performed at St. George's, it got a free-swinging reading in the U.S. last week by a six-man Brown University combo known as the Brown Brunotes, led by visiting Anglican Priest Michael Fisher. When Father Beaumont performs it in his own church, he knows just the kind of combo he wants: a small, zippy dance band, perhaps with some of the gutty quality of a Louis Armstrong. Guy Lombardo, he feels, would...
...occasional cheer is still heard in the dining hall on a rare Saturday night, but the cheerleader now stands in danger of being alone. The periodic smokers have also lost the added zip they once possessed...