Word: carousel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Smudgy Details. In its investigation, the Commission seemed to dig up every smudgy detail of Ruby's shabby life. On Nov. 21, the Commission says, Ruby "visited with a young lady who was job-hunting in Dallas, paid his rent for his Carousel nightclub premises, conferred about a peace bond he had been obliged to post as a result of a fight with one of his striptease dancers, consulted with an attorney about problems he was having with federal tax authorities [who said he owed the U.S. $40,000], distributed membership cards for the Carousel Club, talked with Dallas County...
...went to the Carousel, made a flood of phone calls to family, friends and business cronies in which he babbled about the assassination, got sick after eating dinner at his sister's apartment, went to a synagogue service, stopped at a delicatessen about 10:30 and bought eight kosher sandwiches and ten soft drinks...
Mark Russell says that the Senator sometimes signs his name "Barry Goldwater, L.B.J." That is, "Little Bit Jewish." Russell, who has been working at Bobby Baker's Carousel motel in Ocean City, Md., and opens at the Shoreham in Washington, B.C., next week, will be taking with him another item that concerns Hubert Humphrey, Phar. D. "The fact that Humphrey has a degree in pharmacy would be very handy," says Russell. "Some hot day, Johnson could say: 'Hubert, make me a malted...
...what is generally a first-rate score. Each of the numbers captures one particular emotion in both music and lyrics, and derives its impetus from the immediate context. Several Harlem playground songs, infectiously rendered by leading man Sammy Davis and two boys, lead into a dialogue accented by carousel music. Then, in "There's a Party Going On," rhythmically built upon the carousel setting and physically sung in the playground of his youth, Davis dreams his specious adult dreams of the world outside that he would like...
...shows, G.E.'s Carousel of Progress is one of the most frankly commercial, but it is so studded with million-dollar gimcracks that it is worth seeing. Six audiences watch it at once, revolving in their seats to stop in front of segment after segment of a central stage. The star is a man who looks like Lowell Thomas full of formaldehyde. He sits in his kitchen, taps his foot nervously, blinks, and brags about his household appliances. He is made of plastic-Walt Disney again-and so is his dog, which grrrs and twitches on the floor. Caroline...