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...volume but requires cast-iron lips to play. (Benny Goodman once borrowed Woody's clarinet for a sit-in and had to shave the reed down with a kitchen knife before he could get a toot out of it.) Second, by playing an Albert System clarinet -- an antiquated, wide-bore instrument based on a virtually obsolete fingering method. Why the Albert System? "Because all the guys I liked played the Albert," says Woody...
...even for those willing to part with their babies, there is adoption's dark history to overcome. Until very recently, every party to the transaction bore the scars of its language: "promiscuous," "barren," "illegitimate." When adoption professionals called a woman the natural mother, it left adoptive parents in a semantic dilemma. Were they unnatural parents? The techno-jargony "birth mother" was the more neutral alternative. All the secrecy reinforced the shame: as recently as the 1970s, some delivery-room nurses covered the mirrors and draped towels in front of a woman giving up her child, or even blindfolded...
...audience may not be able to "handle it." The movie's predictably choreographed action scenes lack no blood, but even so, they will bore any Rambo lover. Even William Fraker's excellent camera work could not save these sequences...
POTENTIAL pitfalls lie in two attitudes that demonstrably bore constituents and damage the council's credibility: precocity and parochialism. For example, one campaigner from Leverett House this fall promises a hot tub in every room. Another vows a condom should be placed on every doorstep...
...Bore, Lions, bore...