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Deaf poet Peter Cook and interpreter Kenny Lerner garnered repeated applause--waving hands in American Sign Language (ASL)--from the approximately 60 people in the audience. The reading was presented by the Boston Theater of the Deaf (BDT), Harvard coordinators for persons with disabilities and the Phillips Brooks House Committee for the Deaf...
...followed at the mike by other champs-for-a-day: an accountant, a short-order cook named Larry, a computer specialist who beams while a wag introduces him as "the greatest lead voice from Florida." He bows and launches into Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven. Fellowship and fun count for more than tonal quality in barbershopping, a thriving movement that celebrates a unique song style: the four-part unaccompanied harmony that flourished at the turn of the century on porches, street corners, saloons and, yes, barbershops across America. In its early years, barbershop singing was pretty much a male...
...before such interesting schemes can be put into motion, the grill managers have to work on the basics, such as finding people to cook and serve the food...
Although salvador Dali wrote a cook book, the Chinese painter Ta Chien is the only modern artist to make it to the common menu, with the Szechwan specialty Ta Chien chicken. Through menu notes I have learned over the years that Ta Chien is "the Chinese Picasso," living in South America, given to bright colors (hence the Gaugin green peppers of the dish), and a native of the Szechwan province. I do not think that I have ever seen a picture of Ta Chien, or understood the relationship between the painter and the entree...
...Olympics, when the team finished ninth, and is captain of the contingent going to Seoul. His sacrifices to keep playing would be almost incomprehensible to the average baby boomer. He lives, along with up to 600 other athletes, in U.S. Olympic Committee dorms in Colorado Springs, where he cannot cook or bring liquor into the room, and his bathroom and phone are down the hall. He must meet an 11 p.m. curfew and take a mandatory 90-min. nap at noon. Although the sport is big enough in Europe that club players can earn in excess...