Word: bows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there it is!" shouted one of U.S.S. Ticonderoga's sailors. Barely four miles off the bow of the big carrier, Apollo 17's command ship America emerged from the puffy clouds, drifting easily under its three billowing orange-and-white parachutes. Then, while a television-equipped helicopter hovered almost directly above it to give the world its first bird's-eye view of a splashdown, the command ship dropped into the gently rolling Pacific. Less than an hour later, Apollo 17's three astronauts-Navymen Gene Cernan and Ron Evans and slightly seasick Civilian Geologist Jack...
...Digest. But with the same acceptance of reality he observes the growling of the mastiff bitch as dark spirits pass, repeals the laws of gravity at will and marks the fall of the dead ("And every soul, it passed me by, like the whizz of my cross-bow"). The Sunlight Dialogues has almost as high a mortality rate as The Ancient Mariner...
...Locust, Bow, Bridge...
...have been avoided, but was instead partially spurred on by a mix-up in orders. Fearing the worst, the ship's executive officer, Commander Ben Cloud, part black and part Indian, ordered all the blacks involved to the stern of the ship and the Marine guards toward the bow. A minute later, the captain countermanded the order, according to one witness, barking into the intercom "something like, 'If someone were to write a book on this cruise, this would have to be the most f-ed-up chapter. The exo has been misinformed. Problems...
...kind of parable on our troubled world," to quote the composer, Black Angels uses the surrealistic screech of amplified strings to call forth the grim world of night insects in a way the listener is not likely soon to forget. Elsewhere, the players trill with thimble-capped fingers, bow crystal glasses tuned with water, even play maracas and tam-tams. What others might have left at the level of mere gimmickry, Crumb has turned into a chilling evocation of medieval damnation and redemption. Not for easy listening, though...