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...million Winning bid for a 14th century porcelain jar at Christie's auction house in London, a new record for an Asian work...
...choice and a waste of money." Other news: road repairs in Duluth, Minn.; the annual reunion of the 450-member Robinson family in Cleveland; the opening of a shopping center in St. Louis, where a time capsule received contributions of old draft cards, snapshots of pet dogs, and a jar of Vaseline. Birds died from botulism in Oregon, and a 90-lb. baby boy was born to Radha, a rhinoceros living in Los Angeles, after a 515-day pregnancy (August has been good to Radha...
...aware of Frank's liabilities--the mercurial temper, the sullen withdrawals, the ring-a-ding-ding philosophy. But as she shows, much of the gossip is myth. The subject admits that if he had been quite the satyr of legend, "I'd be speaking to you today from a jar in the Harvard Medical School." Instead, he speaks through a remarkable series of interviews ("It was my idea to make my voice work in the same way as a trombone or violin . . . The first thing I needed was extraordinary breath control"), documents and anecdotes. Accompanying photographs range from...
...Vittorio Taviani have revived a less familiar Pirandello: the compulsive storyteller, spinning tales about his native Sicily, its stern landscape and elemental passions. Kaos dramatizes four of the short fictions Pirandello collected in his 15-volume A Story for Every Day in the Year. Three (The Other Son, The Jar and Requiem) are just fine, anecdotes about longing and power in which the inexplicable nuzzles up against the predictable. A fourth (Moon Sickness) and an epilogue, which lures the author into his own imaginary world, are small miracles of narrative. They raise the folkloric to folk artistry...
...absence of a single social or political lyric leaves the impression that Cowboy Troy may be the obverse of a certain white rapper whose skin is outwardly a comfort to his audience but whose substantive goal is to make that audience uncomfortable. Troy's skin and delivery may jar country traditionalists, but his material will set them at ease. "That's intentional," says Coleman. "I love rap, but my target audience is country. That's where my heart is." Hopefully, country will have space in its heart...