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...writers came for guidance to the Paris salon of Gertrude Stein and her lifelong companion, Alice B. Toklas. Novelists, composers, poets, painters and playwrights sipped the fragrant colorless liqueurs of the two U.S.-born hostesses (which they made themselves from plums and raspberries), dined on such Toklas specialties as Bass for Picasso and argued for hours over cubism, symbolism and the other innovations...
...Written for only seven instruments: clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, drum, violin, bass...
...white degeneration. The "boy" leaves for a job in the post office, a motorscooter, and a sharp suit of store clothes on credit; the kitchen "girl," brooding on mail-order creams to lighten the skin and straighten the hair, achieves status and pregnancy by sleeping with the white "bass." On this level, integration makes a mess of both races. Archie Ferris expresses liberal sentiments toward the blacks; in practice, his enlightened principles are expressed by going on a three-day drunk with his ex-servant, who rides off with a hangover -and the chandelier. Thus Novelist Mclntosh points...
...tours and personal appearances, plan instead to devote their time to a new movie, a TV special and recordings. They have just signed a nine-year recording contract, and are working on a new album that will include aleatory, or "chance," music. "Nowadays," explains McCartney, "the two guitars, bass and drums thing tends to be a bit limited when you're thinking of other ideas, other noises, other notes...
...well as belt out Bill Bailey or Cabaret with a rhythmic finesse that connoisseurs find rare in singers nowadays. There is virtually no style, in fact, that she does not command. With her husband's intricate piano work and the backing of drums and fender bass, her performance has put Kansas City back on the map for jazz lovers...