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...music is still as strong, with the unique horn-playing of Eric Leeds and Atlanta Bliss leading the way. Sheila E. is a percussion virtuoso and even gets a few minutes to rev up the crowd by herself. Of course, she succeeds. And keyboardist/vocalist Boni Boyer gives a terrific performance, adding great gospel sound to "Forever In My Life...
When it comes to bizarre horrors, though, there is no place like home. Harriet's fifth pregnancy disrupts the insular domestic bliss: "David saw her sitting at the kitchen table, head in her hands, muttering that this new foetus was poisoning her." Harriet complains to her doctor, but he refuses to see anything wrong: "He made the usual tests, and said, 'It's large for five months, but not abnormally so.' " After long agony, the child is born. Seeing him for the first time, the mother says, "He's like a troll, or a goblin or something." Harriet names...
...triumph. But there are wonderful surprises in store. Follow the intricate ways in which her benefactors' pasts provide Babette with an occasion. Scan the crowd, at once skeptical yet starving for a masterpiece. Listen for that pompous critical voice leading the group from dubiety to joyous surrender. "Righteousness and bliss" is how that voice summarizes their experience...
...different sort of American apotheosis. Times Square exemplified a certain idea of the city carried to its frenetic extreme: a few blocks dense with too many lights and too much action, a happy chaos of honky-tonk night life (the Florodora girls, Legs Diamond's Hotsy Totsy Club), theatrical bliss (Barrymore's Hamlet, the Marx Brothers) and the spontaneous razzmatazz of the rialto. There was a civic side as well: Times Square became the natural New York place for jubilation en masse, every New Year's Eve and every time America...
News Editor for This Issue: Jonathan M. Moses '88 Night Editors: Elsa C. Arnett '89 Katherine E. Bliss '90 Noam S. Cohen '89 Jessica A. Dorman '88 Susan B. Glasser '90 Brooke A. Masters '89 Jonathan M. Moses '88 Jonathan F. Putnam '88 Shari Rudavsky '88 Photo Editor: Terry R. R. Roopnaraine '90 Feature Editor: Elsa C. Arnett '89 Emily Mieras '90 Jonathan M. Moses '88 Editorial Editor: Gary D. Rowe '88 Sports Editors: Geoffrey H. Simon '88 Business Editors: Willa Berghuis '88 Copy Editor: James Park...