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Nuala Ni Chanainn (violin) -- She plays baroque music every other week with Brian Clague (violin), usually on Tuesday. They prefer to play inside the Coop. Originally from Ireland, Chanainn, who still speaks with a pronounced Irish accent, also plays folk music with a group called Amarcord (2 violins, accordion). Clague says he plays because "there's a feeling of putting something into the world that's good...
...Waynesboro's genteel bigots are scarcely more compelling. Germans are "hucksters" and the Irish "pa pists." The enduring central themes of Ladies are the passage of years and the sense of moribund small-town life. These the author conveys effectively, if windily, as she regards time as "an accordion, all the air squeezed out of it as you grew...
Yosh and Stan Shmenge: Power to the Punk People (Polka) (Yelte Velton). Actually, Eugene Levy and John Candy, two grandmasters of comedy from SCTV, doing some memorable demolition work on excesses of the video genre. The Shmenges are a couple of accordion yankers whose attempts to go current have the impact of Lawrence Welk playing a guest set with the Grateful Dead...
...wintry Michigan day. In a classroom decorated with a large Scripture verse and accordion-pleated angels sit 27 third-and fourth-graders. The mood is quiet and serious. Lessons start with the Pledge of Allegiance, then a stanza of America. The students pray aloud for relatives; they thank God for Bobby's new glasses. For 45 minutes, their teacher, Joel Allen, 28, leads the students through Bible study. "Who made you?" he asks. "God made me. Job 33:4, "the children answer. During the course of the 6½hour day at the Bridgeport Baptist Academy, the students, ages...
...Gandhi does for fun is not generally known. As for the absent Idi Amin, his pastimes were said to run to the wild side, what with his peculiar way of making enemies an internal issue. Amin has been known to show a light heart, however, and has played the accordion at dances. It would be a sad end to so carefree a hobby if Amin were now discovered because someone happened to overhear Lady of Spain. Still, the mind is cheered by the image of Amin on his accordion, Nero on his lyre, Hitler whistling away. Where a band like...