Word: strings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brown; $3.95), shows young Stevenson giving each of his friends birthday presents of their favorite candy-a mountain of red lollipops, a carload of gumdrops, "a very long string of delicious licorice...
...those moments that every performer dreads. Pianist Vladimir Horowitz was halfway through Rachmaninoff's Sonata in B-Flat at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall. And then-poing!-the sound of string #17 (bass A-note) giving way on the Steinway concert grand. An embarrassed unease settled over the hall while a technician frantically made repairs. Finally, Horowitz completed the piece and responded to the thunderous ovation with four encores. Said the famed firm's president, Henry Z. Steinway: "Each time this happens I want to crawl into the woodwork." Soothed Horowitz: "It's like a flat tire...
...prankish Arnold Steinhardt, to give him discipline; with shy Kyung-Wha Chung, a co-winner of the 1967 Leventritt Award, he was kindly and patient, to give her confidence. Galamian constantly worries that sex will distract his best students from their careers. At Meadowmount, the summer school for string players he founded in upstate New York, his most famous exhortation is: "Don't go in the bushes...
...coast to coast, mashed potatoes appear on menus as "snowflake, creamery-whipped potatoes"; all vegetables, whether frozen, canned or left over from yesterday, are called "garden fresh." In Minneapolis, broiled rock lobster tails turn into "Queen of Hearts"; in Los Angeles, capon becomes "Tower of London"; in New York, string beans metamorphose into "Long Johns." The Hawaiian Hut in Portland, Me., offers its Special Tiki Chicken on this verbal platter: "Truly a dish fit for the gods-beyond description." But any diner could describe it easily-chicken with bean sprouts...
...String. Director Theodore Mann manipulates his actors like a sergeant drilling raw recruits. Whenever the action flags, he stiffly strings the players before the footlights, as if for a military inspection. Even so, the players almost undo the damage. Sorrell Booke's three parts are written as caricatures of middle age, but at least he renders the caricatures with the bite of David Levine...