Word: asphodels
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...Middle East's downstairs space should have been Mix Master Mike's gig. He was headlining, after all, coming to the stage at 11:30p.m. After the event's undercards, Rahzel and Choclair, had rhymed the crowd to a fevered pitch. He also has a new album out on Asphodel Records, Eye of the Cyklops. Add to that the fact that a good part of the audience had turned out to see the Beastie Boy's DJ on the basis of association alone. Maybe 60 percent of the audience comprised wannabe B-boys hoping for a solid dose...
...Asphodel three old maids picnic near a shattered mansion, gabble of a deceased romance, and are scared away by a device (a naked man, a flock of goats) which belongs rather to ballet or to case histories than to literature...
...year after year the acanthus and asphodel sprout above him, Leonidas may have doubted the efficacy of his defence. To be sure, poets have sung him in their spare moments; men have written his name in the encyclopedias and the New York Times; historians have exalted him. He doubts no more. A scintillating triumph has jarred the semi-fossilized bones in their subterraneous abode. For yesterday, the will of a deceased Camden, New Jersey, real estate agent disclosed a sum of $5000 to be devoted to the erection of a fitting and lasting memorial in King Leonidas' home town...
...other articles of fiction in the number are "The Joyless Asphodel," by William V. Moody, and "The Pale Stranger," by Julian Palmer Welsh. In the former, the author shows the material for a very pretty and interesting story, which he fails to do full justice in the working up. "The Pale Stranger" betrays a lack of originality; for the unknown princely guest who sings a mysterious song and then disappears, leaving the fair maiden dead behind him, is hardly without parallel in fairy tale and legend...
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