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...becomes merely amusing when he borrows from advertisements (A piece of apple pie is "nutritious, and ... delicious"), and elsewhere downright sickeningly romantic. ("Holy flowers floating in the dawn of Jazz America.") And when he tries to describe jazz, he reaches the heights of the ridiculous. ("ta-tup-EE-da-de-deraRup ...") It's difficult to see why, in the day of LP's, he thinks it necessary to compete with Charlie Parker on paper...
...Bass: Da otvechai pochemu Tenor: Weather is O.K. Bass: Akh da slushaite slushaite Tenor: Weather O.K. weather is fine...
...Cents a Point. In the days that followed, while the King took the waters, he was asked his every wish. Music? He liked Carmen and Aïda. The local symphony changed its program and saved a row of seats. But on the appointed night, the King decided to stay home instead, so fascinated was he by the Japanese magician who had been brought in to amuse his youngest sons while he was at the concert...
...JACOPO da Ponte suffered an unhappy fate. He painted in Venice at the same time as Titian and Tintoretto. It was enough to depress even the most talented artist, and 16th century Venetian dandies did not help matters by sneering that Jacopo was "full of provincial sap." Jacopo despondently returned to his nearby native town, whose name, Bassano, became his own because he rarely signed his work, and when he did. merely brushed the modest words. "Jack, by the bridge at Bassano...
From Allen's start it is only a short leap to NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND, by Benny Hooper Jr., THE POWER ELITE, by Georgy Malenkov, A CERTAIN SMILE, by Leonardo da Vinci, or THE SUN ALSO RISES, by Aly (MY SON, MY SON! Khan...