Word: stool
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...frequent and happy intervals, he bursts from these poses into wild assaults on the earthbound sanity of his viewers. He restlessly roams the stage and studio audience, leaps from piano stool to microphone and back, urgently seizes and spurns his fellow actors, addresses furious asides to his network, his sponsor (Motorola) and other comics. He hymned his nose's birthday ("It was the first time in history that a nose outweighed the child!"); sang (with Stooge Candy Candido) an appealing duet called The Pussy Cat Song; displayed an entertaining low comedy that is as innocent as it is rare...
...Munch entered, grinning at the unrestrained audience. He turned to his orchestra, glanced at the microphone which hung over the center like a patient bee, and led the brasses through Gabrieli. For Schoenberg's "Kammersymphonie" he abandoned his high stool and put on his glasses. He bounced around the front of the podium, swinging his arms from side to side for the sharp, biting chords, then shook his head at a chord too harsh even for Schoenberg...
Munch tucked his stool under himself and nodded the beginning of the Mozart concerto. Mozart was fine, and his eyebrows touched the hanging edges of his dishevelled hair as he grinned at Menuhin...
...year ago, Groucho Marx's You Bet Your Life (Wed. 9 p.m. E.S.T., CBS) was fighting it out for 75th place in the Nielsen-Ratings with such tired old rivals as Roy Rogers, County Fair and Dr. I.Q. Last week, by sitting on a stool before a microphone and trading comment and insult with a succession of quiz contestants, Groucho had piloted his show in a skyrocketing climb to sixth place...
...Navy certificate, even without its stool-pigeon phrase, is still an unfortunate document. The purpose of the certificate is to wood out "persons whose conduct or associations ... cast doubt upon their loyalty." It requires signers to detail their association with any of the Attorney General's 173 organizations, and says that this association "may be considered as establishing reasonable grounds for separation of personnel...