Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...them from the aircraft carrier Ark Royal, far in the rear of the British formation. These plunged and plopped their projectiles at the escapists, while their fighter escorts took on Italian defensive aircraft. As they returned to the Ark Royal, and reconnaissance planes flew up to check the battle score, Sir James led his ships away from land, down toward Malta and their original course, well knowing what a hornets' nest the action would stir up at the Cagliari air bases...
...varsity career, had been lured into the Chicago Bears' line-up-at a reputed $10,000 a game-the week after he played his last game for Illinois. Nowadays, college footballers cannot play professional ball until their class has graduated. But any player who in eight games can score 16 touchdowns, throw seven touchdown passes, convert 18 points-after-touchdown and kick a field goal-to give his team 159 of their 196 points-is good whenever the pros can get him. The Chicago Bears and Washington Redskins had each reportedly offered $25,000 to catch the Wolverine Express...
Johnny Green has set this mad frolic of college life as students dream of it to the varied pace of a sparkling and melodious score. Swingtime "Go 'Way Blues" and sweetly-sentimental "I Heard You Were Lovely" attest to his composing versatility. Other songs we are likely to hear more of are "You're a Character," "America Marches On," and "Never a Dull Moment." Ella Logan gives a personality-plus presentation of the hotter numbers, while Christina Lind and Harry Stafford romance through the softer strains. As for the indispensable sex-angle, Audrey Christie leads al the other fifty...
...form was Beaumarchais' virulent satire on the French nobility.' If Da Ponte, Mozart's incompetent librettist, had not emasculated Beaumarchais' play of all its social satire, until it was nothing but lace and frills, we might have a more cogent piece of drama. Even as it is, Mozart's score is so wonderfully expressive and dramatic that of itself it creates vital characters where there are nothing but wooden-heads in the libretto...
...nothing but meaningless jumbles of sound, with no melodic interest whatsoever and very little success in evoking any imaginative picture. The middle two movements, "Night" and "Solitude," in which the writer of the leaflet professed to find a "softly vibrant sensuousness," reminded me of some third-rate movie-score hacking out a scene from the garden of Allah or the sultan's harem. The Orchestra under Kajanus performs superbly, but its efforts are pretty well wasted...