Word: random
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Brubeck and Saxophonist Paul Desmond toss the theme back & forth for a while. Then, before long, the tune disappears and in its place, stream-of-consciousness style, come whimsical variations hinting at everything from Stravinsky to Gershwin to Bach. When he comes to his solo part, Brubeck picks a random theme and toys with it, reflectively trying it first on the white keys, then on the black, allowing traces of Mozart or John Philip Sousa to creep in. Then his eyes close, his head weaves, and the music settles into a firm idea and starts prancing up the keyboard...
Died. Susan Peters, 31, cinemactress whose budding career (Random Harvest, Song of Russia) was cut short in 1945 when she accidentally shot herself while on a hunting trip with her cinemactor-husband Richard Quine; in Visalia, Calif. Paralyzed from the waist down, she tried a film comeback (The Sign of the Ram) playing the part of a cripple, later toured in stage plays (The Glass Menagerie, The Barretts of Wimpole Street) that could be acted from a wheelchair or a couch. Her doctor gave the "primary cause" of death as a chronic kidney ailment and bronchial pneumonia, added "I felt...
...York State Supreme Court, Artist Willy Pogany filed a $1,000,000 libel suit against Author Whittaker Chambers and Random House, Inc., publishers of Chambers' bestselling Witness. The charge: Chambers falsely and maliciously described Willy in the book as the brother of Hungary's Communist Big Shot Joseph Pogany. Willy claimed that he is not related to Joseph, never knew him, never had any dealings with...
...floor under the eaves is lined with bookcases and filing boxes. Clamp boards holding notes and exhortations to himself are braced against the wall, and specially built slots in his old-fashioned desk hold sections of whatever book he is working on, folders with scraps of dialogue and random ideas. He writes his books in bits & pieces, may drop one section to tackle another, and sometimes drops the whole thing to work on something else. It is a seemingly wasteful method (he always throws away thousands of words), but it is one that suits him. By the time...
...polltakers. In 1948, when polltakers could pick their own areas, they often passed up slum districts. To this Gallup has added greater use of a check which market researchers have found accurate: "pinpoint sampling," in which every third house is visited in 150 U.S. electoral precincts picked at random. This is the method Gallup will use for his last pre-election poll, taken the Saturday before Election...