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...enters to ape a train whistle by blowing into a set of three wooden pipes. When an 11-year-old Joe Crowell appears to deliver the morning newspapers, we spot another fellow crouching to create a swish-plop on the stage floor with a wire brush and a soft beater, while Joe mimes the act of delivery. And, again, we watch someone make the sound of rattling bottles and clomping hooves although Howie Newsome's horse and milk-carrier are invisible...
...turned this disparate collection of players into a unified league beater is soft-speaking, second-year Coach K.C. Jones. A paradigm of defensive skill during his nine seasons with the Boston Celtics, Jones insists that his players complement their effective fast break with unrelenting defensive pressure. As a result, the Bullets are now the second stingiest team in the league. "We believe offense is for shooters and defense is for all five guys," says Jones. "Fortunately, our starters are all shooters...
...greatest hits collections to half-live, half-studio albums. Traffic's course struck a different vein. Whereas Mason remained stagnant musically, Traffic explored new musical realms whose limits it reached rapidly. With the release of Low Spark, the group's personnel doubled, drummer Jim Capaldi was shifted to tambourine beater, dancer, and all-purpose buffoon, and long bluesy jams became part of the group's repertoire...
...CRUELTY., on the other hand, leaves very little to the suggestiveness of poetry. Its titles speak for the poetry's overbearing directness: "Forty-Three Year Old Woman, Masturbating," "The Corpse Hauler's Elegy," "The Cripple," "The Suicide," "Child Beater," "Starvation." Ai's purpose seems to be to attack the reader, lash out at the finer sensibilities. Her poems are description of desperate people or small narratives laced with hate and anger. There isn't even any self-pity in her characters--in "The Rivals," an old woman screams out at her cold husband...
Neither team looked much like a world-beater, and the scrimmage was evenly matched throughout the afternoon. Harvard, because of an agreement to exchange films of the scrimmage with next week's opponent, UMass, used only two sets and worked a very basic offensive attack...