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...magazine's great, and if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Or perhaps you're yelling that there may be snow on the roof, but there's fire in the belly. I appreciate your confidence, dear reader, but you don't know what's in the pickle barrel until you take the lid off. Where there's smoke, there's fire, and the staff is walking on thin...
...often without his infamous exploits? Would Linda Tripp be a household name if she wasn’t' a self-professed double talking snoop? Would Annie Taylor be an enduring symbol of American ambition if it wasn't for her unprecedented trip over the Niagara Falls in a barrel of her own making? Hardly...
...poem Queen of the Mist, details the sad life and short fame of Annie Taylor, an elderly and utterly destitute school teacher living at the turn of the century who devised and executed what seemed the perfect plan for money and fame. After building with her thin hands a barrel to enclose her body like a womb and shelter her from her fall over the raging ledge of water, Annie Taylor subsequently became the first person in history to propel herself down the length of Niagara Falls in a barrel...
...never rivals the story in The Queen of the Mist; rather, the spare imagery Murray painstakingly inserts allows the heartbreaking story to tell itself without unnecessary flourishes. Images of birth, death and rebirth permeate the poem's language, providing the strongest continual layer of metaphor within the poem. The barrel, Annie's self-made womb, becomes in the end Annie's self-made tomb as Annie watches herself disintegrate within the short and petty memory of history. Eventually she is even called an imposter when the idealistic collective imagination consumes memory and literally recreates "Annie Taylor" into a blonde, beautiful...
...barrel of laughs is only a T ride away. Dom Irrera presents his show "Full Frontal Comedy." Enjoy. Comedy Connection, Faneuil Hall...