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With Brazilian inventiveness, the victims have devised grimly apt names for the various torture techniques. One of the most widely practiced is called the pau de arara, or parrot's perch. The victim's wrists are tied together and slipped over his knees. After a rod is inserted between his knees and arms, the prisoner is hoisted into the air, where he hangs helplessly, head down. Using electric coils, the torturers shock the victim on the genitals and anus...
...ecological art-as apt a name as any -sounds eccentric, it is. But it is also demanding. Its practitioners sweat and swim, dig trenches, hack through ice, suffer desert winds or the muscle aches of long climbs-all for the sake of a few photographs and a memory. No one intent merely on economic security would go in for it, since it results in little that can be sold or even framed. But a considerable number of artists, some young, some not so young, have committed themselves to it. So, as Arthur Miller might say, attention must be paid...
...stock prices. Even in a bear market, he argues, the public's appetite for new shares would hardly diminish because investors would not be risking their own savings to acquire stock. And he figures that people who own stock as a source of second incomes would be apt to retain it as long as corporations avoid large cuts in their dividends...
...charming idea, of course, and one particularly apt to the Jazz Age. But it must have been a bit unsettling to find such a statement in a letter from one's fiancee. By anybody's judgment, Scott Fitzgerald made a disastrous marriage. As this painstakingly researched biography shows, though, he was thoroughly forewarned. He met Zelda in 1918 when she was the belle of Montgomery, Ala., society and he was an Army lieutenant. The very first time Scott was invited to dine with her parents, Zelda so goaded her father that he chased her around the dining table...
...best definition of the Boston Pops I've heard was given several years ago in the Collegiate Guide to Greater Boston. Their reviewer called the Pops "The Boston Symphony minus the first chair players, and with little or no rehearsal." Certainly this is an apt description for this clever little device to provide work for deserving local musicians after the Boston season but before Tanglewood...