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...University denials came amidst reports that the private airplane ostensibly carrying Salinas from Mexico landed in an airfield outside Boston on Sunday afternoon...
...deciding set, however, Hernandez Ore was not to be stopped and amidst cheers of "Jose...Jose...Jose...Jose...Jose...
...significantly on embellishment. He executed the last selection, a genuine if overly scripted "Notre Dame Blues," With appropriate gusto, smiling visibly for the first time while playing. Perhaps he was considering the incongruity of Rochberg's brand of smokestack lightning--replete with twangs and even a couple of slides--amidst the Gardner's 15th century surroundings...
...Amidst the audible mental synapses turned to poetic utterance, you hear the hefty beat of music from upstairs, blocked out only occassionally by the rumble and shaking of a passing subway. It's a trip, but leave romaniticized visions of underground culture at home...
When viewed through a Feminist/ Decontructionist lens, the advertisement betrays a multiplicity of hidden messages. The image of the cigarette/ phallus remains central, perhaps suggesting Merle's own doubts about his manhood. As Merle stands, patriachal, yet despairing amidst the rolling fields of tobacco, the camera shifts once again to an image of sexual negation. The Barn is a Keatsian cave of forlorn despair and homosexual repression, suggesting void on both a sexual and an ontological level. The only hint of resolution comes in the form of conversion. All seems resolved as the tobacco is mysteriously rendered into phallic triumph...