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...folk musician and music teacher before it was fashionable and was a founder of the venerable Philadelphia Folk Song Society. Tim started on baritone ukulele before he was eight and took up the Highland pipes at eleven (the "war pipes," he calls them, an appropriate name for an instrument that is the Scottish equivalent of the bugle...
...year later, when he met a misanthropic Uilleann piper named Tom Standeven, he had the flash of inspiration many Irish pipers describe: "I was just blown away. I knew instantly that I wanted to play this instrument." Recalls Britton: "Tom was like a high priest with a new disciple. He told me that a piper has to be a woodworker, leatherworker, metalsmith and reedmaker just to maintain the instrument, and that I would have to learn Gaelic to understand the rhythm of piping. Basically, though, I had really long hair at the time, and I think he was afraid...
Klein worked with a locomotive verve and an indifference to the holy writ of camera technique. At a time when the nondistorting 50-mm lens (the kind that is still standard on most 35-mm cameras) was deemed the only fit instrument for recording truth, Klein used a wide angle to collect as much incident as possible within the frame. He favored a flash at long exposure, for its jittery harshness. He also went in for blurred images: smudged bodies in motion, heads so close to the lens that they dissolve into gaseous globes. The archetypal Klein photo is Minigang...
...said nothing and scurried to get my smoking jacket before I could get the blunt instrument with which I usually struck him repeatedly on the side of the face...
Congress is hardly the most finely honed instrument for making decisions of this kind. On the question of contra aid, Congress has returned answers, consecutively, of yes, yes, no, a bit, and -- last year -- yes again. (It was during the two years of "no" and "a bit" -- 1984 through 1986, when Congress first banned all aid, then only military aid -- that Colonel North sought to circumvent Congress by funneling aid from other sources, including the Iran arms sale.) Lyndon Johnson once reminded critics that he was the only President we had. This is the only Congress we have...