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...weeks of practice | brewing. Mason says there were few surprises. At one point, a daily check of the yeast culture by Consulting Biologist Mike Sinclair showed that wild yeast had corrupted the strain, and Mason had to order another batch from Chicago. The taste of Catamount's gold and amber ales was distinct -- amber more full- bodied and slightly higher in alcohol content -- but their color was too similar, and Mason made adjustments to darken the amber...
...local dairy farmer arrives to pay for a batch of used barley mash, which he feeds to his cattle. Conversation develops, and the beer remains unpoured. Are there not cows to be milked? Perhaps there is some manure to be shoveled? At last the observer gets his glass of Amber. It is red in cast, bread fresh, with the body of a weight lifter: serious beer. A glass of Gold is similarly muscular, though not so massive. Lighter, notes the visitor, "though of course" -- he spells out the word that self-respecting beer drinkers prefer not to pronounce...
...Manhattan concert hall has long been renowned for its rich sound. Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler once remarked that the hall with the best acoustics was the one with the best performances, but at Carnegie, second-rate symphonies sometimes sounded first rate. There, the resonance bathed performers in a mellow amber glow, and at orchestral climaxes the floor vibrated sympathetically beneath the listeners' feet. What did it matter if the subway occasionally added its profundo rumble to the bass, or if passing fire sirens sounded a wailing obbligato to the treble? Musicians and audiences loved it just...
J.F.K. signaled his intention in 1960 when he had his hair cut back. Thereafter he drove the Senate barbers wild with his persnickety instructions for a presidential trim. He ordered Frances Fox's special amber hair tonic rubbed into his dome daily on the campaign trail. He refused to wear a hat lest the felt crush his coif...
Beyond the high-profile productions are a number of other shows worth following. Among these are such varied offerings as Gilgamesh, billed as the "world's oldest epic," Chickencoop Chinaman, described as the first Asian-American production at Harvard and Dreams in Amber, a "music/theater dreamplay." And like last year's Wuthering Heights, there will be another staging of an honors thesis project...