Word: gleaner
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...with AM radio-quality sound, or with cheap, half-broken microphones--anything that will throw their "pop" talents into sharper relief. "Marchers in Orange," on this new record, lasts about a minute and has no guitars, just an accordion and a bass: the vocal melody does all the work. "Gleaner (The Deeds of Fertile Jim)" uses a deadpan strum not unlike the one perfected by college-radio heroes Sebadoh (whose "Brand New Love" the knowing lyrics quote). "Exit Flagger" rides a pushmepullyou-like hook to the chorus, where it suddenly gains a kick more powerful than your average well-trained...
...again to dance in a tourist filled nightclub, to purchase more sun block, to venture from the harbor in a yacht. We also reentered the marketplace to buy gifts for friends and family back home. Leaving the country, we came across a copy of a Jamaican paper. The Sunday Gleaner. Its top story was a glowing account of the prime minister's inauguration. His win, the article said, represented an overwhelming mandate to improve the nation's economic status...
Gerold Frank is an incorrigible gleaner. He tells of a black photographer who collected King's blood in a pill bottle and a white doctor, with no special admiration for King, who nevertheless saved the cardiograph tape of his last heartbeats. In presenting King himself, the author shows the man's moodiness and tension and his fears that the coming Poor People's March on Washington would fail to revive the nonviolent movement. But there is no real assessment of King as a complex man who had roiled the South but failed to stir the Northern cities...
...mensaje a long one and not all valuable. But oh yes here: THE RICE PLANTER AND THE RICE GLEANER ARE ONE. THE GATHERER-AND-GLEANER FEEDS US AND SO IS NAMED "THE LOVELY ONE." BUT THE LOVELY ONE STANDS IN DANGER OF HUNGER AND OF LOSING HIMSELF WHILST WE GROW PLUMP...
...Underwood feels that he is the descendant of William Blake: "Like Blake, I rewrite the Bible in my mind and then use my interpretation for my work." Biblical or not, the sculptures always carry a message, and they do so in a strange mixture of whimsy and anguish. The Gleaner (see opposite page) could be merely a grim glimpse of an old peasant woman bending to her daily drudgery, but Underwood had a more cheerful inspiration. "What would a woman want to be doing gleaning ears of corn?" he asks. "She is picking up a man. Look at the text...