Word: scrimshaw
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...DECORATIVE ARTS OF THE MARINER edited by Gervis Frere-Cook. 296 pages. Little, Brown. $20. Marine art is given its due in this splendid account of state barges, navigational instruments, figureheads, decorative rope and scrimshaw (see cut, opening page). The ships themselves come in all styles and ages from Mississippi steamboats to Malay proas, from Chinese dragon boats to Atlantic liners. An enjoyable whiff...
...virtuosity of their two stars. Sutherland's husband Richard Bonynge, who conducted the Boston production, and Horne's spouse Henry Lewis, who as associate conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic is the leading Negro conductor in the U.S., put their heads together to compose some additional vocal scrimshaw of their own. The result was a stunning display of bel canto acrobatics of a kind rarely heard...
...Simba Scrimshaw. When they arrived, the paras found 20 hostages murdered with a deliberate savagery reminiscent of the Nazi death camps. A group of Simbas had burst into a Dominican mission where 71 Belgians and an American missionary, Joseph Tucker, 49, had been held for three weeks...
...Paulis, the rebels were equally savage with their fellow Africans. The pro-Tshombe provincial president had been executed as an example to the town's 30,000 inhabitants. The Simbas first cut out his tongue, next lopped off his ears, feet and hands. Then they began a slow scrimshaw from the bottom up. It took him 15 minutes...
...Saxpots Jimmy Hamilton (tenor), Johnny Hodges (alto) and Harry Carney (baritone) add to the luster. Standouts are Russell Procope's low-register clarinet solo in More and Cootie Williams' soaring trumpet work on Fly Me to the Moon. And binding it all together is the deft piano scrimshaw of Ellington himself...