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Kentucky will meet the winner of the Alabama-Birmingham-Brigham Young game in the Mideast, and DePaul, hoping to give retiring Conch Ray Meyer his first nation championship, will go against the winner of Alabama and Illinois State in the Midwest...
...music--composed and directed by senior David Rothenberg--is undeniably one of the show's highlights. The six-member group of musicians jumps from reed and percussion to less conventional instruments like conch shells with case, complementing the actors' attempts at creating a sometimes apocalyptic, sometimes soothing scenario. The lighting and special effects heighten the audience's response to the performers. The incense and candles give the ceremony a profoundly mystical quality, as does the variegated "mondola"--an authentic Tibetan floor piece upon which the dance and communicate with one another. Particularly effective is the white shroud, which subtly...
When the meal is ready the chef calls in the other students by ringing a bell or by blowing loudly through a conch shell, as they do in Jordan J. The evening's chef places the meal on a counter buffet style and students serve themselves, then take their plates back to a long table set against one wall of the room...
...lush corners of Nicaragua, food shortages are not a problem. At a doctor's ranch-style home in a tree-lined southern suburb of Managua, thick churrasco steaks wait beside an outdoor barbecue grill as some 20 weekend guests sip cocktails and pick at turtle egg and black conch appetizers. Half a dozen children race through the garden to the swimming pool. Most of the guests are middle-aged relatives. They talk little of politics but much of their kin who have left for the U.S. There is only a brief flare-up of political emotion as a woman...
...scene of the book is Key West and Cuba. The story is a sort of saga, disconnected and episodic, of one Harry Morgan, burly, surly, hard-natured "conch" (as Key West natives call themselves), whose life has been spent in the single-minded effort to keep himself and his family on the upper fringes of the "have-nots." Owner of a fast motor boat, he charters it to big-game fishermen, also uses it for running contraband...