Word: styling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Wells Theatre Ballet), Balanchine made one of them a sure-fire novelty. He decided to introduce his fans to the music of one of his favorite composers, Glinka ("the Verdi of Russia," says Balanchine), and one of his favorite dances, the fiery mazurka. Who could set its style better than Balanchine himself...
Sweetening. Muggsy well remembers the old wave. He had learned his broad, lazy, middle-register style as a scrawny kid, sitting on the curb outside Chicago's Pekin Cafe, listening chin-in-hand to the stream of notes pouring from the golden horns of Joe ("King") Oliver and Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong. He got his first job at 14, blew his head off from 8:30 at night to 4:30 in the morning for $25 a week...
...tried to do just that. Author Sheldon's conclusions: the Christ-conscious turn-of-the-century man would lend a helping hand to the poor, campaign against the consumption of alcohol and tobacco, remain staunchly pacifist at whatever cost. Sheldon's In His Steps was stuffy in style, contrived in plot, and contained some of the most ludicrous dialogue ever written. But it went to the hearts of thousands. Within a few months it had sold more than 100,000 copies, has since become the alltime fiction bestseller (estimates as high as 30 million copies...
Fortunately for student waitresses the administration clings to 'gracious living' only to the extent of having one sit-down non-cafeteria style meal a day. Dinners at week day suppers and Sunday lunch are waited on individually, the rest of the time waitresses put food on a serving table and carry away dirty dishes from the side-boards...
...coxcomb Lord Foppington. All prance, prattle and fizz, Foppington is far more concerned about the location of a coat pocket than the loss of a wife.† British Actor Cyril Ritchard (Love for Love, Make Way for Lucia) blends a born sense of comedy with a brilliant sense of style. His Foppington is no mere lace-handkerchief dangler, but the eager performer of an idiotic role, with a need and a genius for catching the limelight. Ritchard understands that the key to Foppington and his kind is not an ambiguity of sex but an absorption with self...