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Parker's life was as frantic as his music was creative. He said that he wanted to hear Schoenberg, Hindemith, Stravinsky, and Bartok-but he could never find the time. Married twice, his amorous escapades were infamous. He was charming, monstrous, lonely, tortured. He was trapped in the upside-down world of jazz. Day began at dusk and ended whenever the counterfeit glow of alcohol, drugs and sex wore off. He began to use heroin to unlock the doors of creativity the way Coleridge used opium and Schiller inhaled rotten apples. Finally he lost the trick of living...
...action has been particularly frantic of late, partly because of the international monetary turmoil. Many a speculator has thought that 10,000 lbs. of copper, say, had more potential value than the dollars needed to buy a future on them. More important, commodity prices are being rocketed upward by a huge increase in worldwide demand for U.S. farm products. "Our markets are coming out of the age of surpluses," which always had a potential to depress prices, says CBT Pit Trader Richard H. Mayer...
What is most surprising is that after those five frantic weeks in Norway, Joe Losey-back in his home base of London-is convinced that he has "an exceptionally good picture." It is scheduled for release in the U.S. next fall. He believes that some of Jane's changes actually helped improve the movie, and that her acting for the most part was "superb." It is also true that he "covered" himself with supplementary scenes in such a way that he can cut out Jane's verbosity in the editing wherever it gets...
Photographers, for want of more exciting moments, snapped frantic shots of physicist Murray B. Levin '48, into whose face an enterprising demonstrator affectionately tossed...
...night stand at the Music Hall. From the moment she first shimmied onto the stage in her tacky white slit-to-the-hip lamee costume and belted out her frenzied version of "Friends," she had her sparkle-studded, magenta-lipped fans by the balls. Her act--a frantic combination of boogie-woogie and early 60's "trash"--is an orgiastic experience that is uniquely Bette...