Word: drum
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...sort of a be-in. Pungent incense, sweet music, bright balloons wafted on the thick morning-foggy air. One girl sat on a small boulder playing a recorder to the accompaniment of a Heinz-kosher-pickle-can drum. Another stood around in a waist length alumninum foil mini-skirt and flexed her thighs, making the word "Peace" which was painted on both her legs in fluorescent psychedelic lettering undulate weirdly...
...late shift. Two tables away are a Harvard student and his girl. He is pounding out a solo with his fingers. His girl is talking about God. The boy keeps pounding, moving, the head low, the fingers hard and calloused on the formica. For five minutes, this crazy drum solo. Then he stops, leans over, and kisses his girl. The six leer...
...asked, and it often is: what draws them, the boys with the pinched faces and the girls with little fat pink stars for hands? The Square on Saturday night is the more tumultuous aspect of hum drum. A more intense, violent and glanduar aspect of quiet lives. When they were eight, there was the mechanical horse outside the Wellington Circle Woolworth's, the collection of baseball cards to be flipped down alleys blown clean by the spring wind...
...Written for only seven instruments: clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, drum, violin, bass...
...consistent tone can be imparted to a play that juxtaposes the somber drum roll of the Kennedy funeral cortege with such inane Shakespearean mutations as "Oh whine and pout/ That ever I was born to bury doubt." But MacBird's basic flaw is that Playwright Garson is a frivolous, scattershot satirist who has no moral vision of her own to counterpose whatever might be regarded as evil in her characters. She has written an apolitical play in which all choices seem silly. The Ken O'Duncs are presented as chilly, ruthless opportunists; MacBird is a mixture of corn...