Word: presto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fiddle section of Manhattan's Capitol Theater orchestra. Five days later, when the conductor suddenly took ill 15 minutes before showtime, Ormandy was thrust onto the podium for the first time because, naturally, he was the only musician who knew Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony by heart. Presto! "I discovered a new instrument, richer and fuller than the violin-the orchestra...
...thread film along sprockets and through take-up spools. To remedy the situation, Kodak two years ago brought out its line of Instamatic cameras that featured instant-loading Kodak cartridges in a new size, slightly smaller than the traditional 35 mm. Slip the cartridge into the camera and presto-you are ready to shoot. Not to be outdone, West Germany's Agfa came up with Rapid cartridges, which use the regular 35-mm., but thread automatically into a receiving cassette, require no rewinding when the roll is exposed. Other domestic and foreign firms immediately began to adapt their cameras...
...local haristocracy and proceeds to get engaged. After a heady spell of high life, Kipps is disillusioned and marries a non-U charmer of a chambermaid (Polly James) from his own class. But his ex-fiancée's caddish brother absconds with Kipps's last thruppence. Presto! An alcoholic playwright whom he once befriended showers him with a handsome percentage of the royalties from his first hit play...
Artist as Analyst. A spate of recent shows has established that contemporary portraits are two-way mirrors. Larry Rivers makes a collage portrait of Pop Artist Jim Dine on a metal storm window. Raise the bottom half, lower the top pane, and presto, a different Dine peers through. Pop Artist Andy Warhol tries to beat the penny-arcade snapshot by silk-screening the image many times over. Reginald Pollack found he had painted himself into a corner; his Self-Portrait (opposite page) shows his face surrounded by images of the girl he was then courting. She outnumbers...
...catch a prince, like Rapunzel, or to avoid a taxing situation, like Godiva, the girl who took down her hair in days of yore never thought twice about the trouble involved. But then, why should she? She had nothing to undo but a braid or a ribbon and presto, crowning glorysville! It is only the modern maid who spends the better part of her days putting up her hair and is not about to take it down until she's good and ready...