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...added, "The league title is our main concern. A victory over a non-league team is no feather...
...this real freak-show type stuff into the dressing room and spends about a half hour in there, and I'm getting ready to go in because for all I know she's shooting up or something. And then she walks out looking like this crazy turkey mama--feather boas on her arms and she's wrapped an Indian shawl around her for a skirt, and she's braided beads into her hair and painted her face in green and white diamonds. And then she just struts around for a while, singing to herself like she's trying...
...helps to remember this story in reading A Crown of Feathers, because the story makes plainer the pain Singer expresses in the theme that runs through A Crown of Feather's stories: people's inability to know the truth, or even to know that there is any truth that would make what they suffer meaningful. Again and again in these stories--like almost all Singer's stories, they're stories of Polish Jews or their children in the United States, told in slightly humorous, simple sentences that probably lose something for not being read aloud--the fear that what happens...
...several varied themes and each had a distinctly Spanish/Latin/South American tint. The first band, also called Return to Forever, had that same tint--reed man Joe Farrell, singer Flora Purim, and percussionist Airto Moreira were three-fourths of a band that lived its only album title--Light as a Feather...
...serpents are gilded with Theda Bara eye makeup and cheap-glam feather boas, but their style is belly dance rather than hippity-hop Charleston. The set, too, is twenties and thirties: the glitter of aluminum foil stars and moons is like the old movie palaces with their ugly statues, fancy organs, and ceilings domed in twinkling lights to look like the midnight sky. The effect is hokey but not distracting--it's just instant dreamland...