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...even ten rows back, the words can scarcely be heard. They exist not as nouns and verbs, but as a physical mass, a hot, indistinct slur like sausage meat: ground out of the famous lips, eaten by the mike, driven into banks of amplifiers and rammed out through two immense blocks of speakers high on either side of the stage. The vowels mix stickily with the air of the auditorium, already saturated by the fume of tens of thousands of packed bodies, the smoke of 50,000 cigarettes and a few pounds of weed, forming an acrid blue vault overhead...
...very grudging da. "Comrades," he told the crowd through an interpreter, "you see how your Premier gets his way. He has a way of getting his way. But we have reached an understanding, is that not so, Companero Castro?" Castro's reply, if there was one, was indistinct. Some observers speculated that the Russians, who have had some success with their Via Pacifica policy in Latin America, wanted to warn Castro against resuming an unsettling, subversive role in the region. 3. A Pleader in the West
Troublesome Standard? With some pain, Burger conceded that the "line of [church-state] separation, far from being a 'wall,' is a blurred, indistinct and variable barrier." His reasoning was too blurred for Justices William O. Douglas, Hugo Black, Thurgood Marshall and William Brennan, who dissented in the college-aid decision. None of them could see why Government support of secular services should be more entangling in schools than colleges. All thought that the court should have banned aid to colleges too; Justice Byron White, the lone supporter of school-level aid, argued that if colleges meet the Allen...
Every musical aims for at least one showstopper. Follies can count on two. The first is Who's That Woman? Seven of the aging Follies girls, led by that infallible comedienne Mary Mc-Carty, re-enact an old routine, ostensibly to mirrors. From the indistinct background, their youthful selves emerge ?backs to the audience, as if a reflection: new vamps for old. The symmetry of the ballet?choreographed by Follies Co-Director Michael Bennett?is never violated for a quarter-note. When an old girl turns, her "reflection" makes the selfsame move in reverse, a feat whose parallel...