Word: catfish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...essentially a choral opera. It is in choruses like Gone, Gone, Gone and Headin' for the Promise' Lan' and the extraordinary Oh, Doctor Jesus, in which six independent musical lines, notated without bars, move freely against a hummed background, that the voice and soul of the residents of Catfish Row are heard. Porgy is their story, and the celebrated songs like Bess, You Is My Woman Now are only fancy melodic finery. At the Met, the all-black chorus, assembled and trained by David Stivender and Lloyd Walser, steals the show...
...dark in mood, and heavy. This is not to say that it takes on real weight, however, only that it seems to be buckling under the pull of some nonspecific gravity. A woman who can work up a fail-safe two-line recipe for romantic bliss ("Make him some catfish/ Fry it up in bed") has humor to spare and no further need to flash her credentials for high seriousness. The same notion remains: if the next record comes faster, it ought to be even better...
Ferraro even handled a brush with Southern chauvinism with an aplomb worthy of Scarlett O'Hara. As the candidates dryly discussed farm issues near a soybean field north of Jackson, the state's venerable agriculture commissioner, Jim Buck Ross, asked Ferraro if she had ever eaten catfish. "No," she replied. "Then you haven't lived, young lady," he said. The talk turned to blueberries, and the 66-year-old commissioner inquired, "Can you bake a blueberry muffin?" Ferraro smiled tightly. "Sure can." Slight pause. "Can you?" Another pause. "Down here," drawled Ross...
...have been a bumpy week for Democratic hopefuls, what with squabbles over the party platform and delegate-selection rules, but for the opposition presidential candidate it was all smooth sailing. Ronald Reagan just breezed along, stroking an elephant here, downing a catfish there and most of all relishing his most recent in-house poll showing him outpacing Walter Mondale, at least for the shining moment, by a thumping 54% to 39%. Said a top aide: "There's no question that Reagan is on a high right...
Back at the White House, Reagan hosted an outdoor fish fry attended by 800 Congressmen and seafood-industry officials. The fare included salmon, lobster, oysters and catfish. Conspicuous by his absence was House Speaker Tip O'Neill, whom White House aides had invited to join Reagan at the head picnic table. O'Neill's aides said the event had never been on the Speaker's schedule. Ventured an observer: "He had other fish...