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...Tony Tankersley was just beginning his graduate studies when he discovered political activism: "At first I mixed with a loose-knit group of Old Lefties and Black Panthers, but it did not take long for me to make the transition to the hip radical world-a world I could identify with." His first encounter with the New Left came during the Oakland Induction Center riots of 1967, when he "saw the brutality perpetrated against the demonstrators and thought it unjust. It was then that I began seeing myself as a violent revolutionary." From a follower to a leader...
...slipping slowly down around the knees of the melting mold. Out of the oven; onto the platter; half-eggshell filled with flaming cognac jammed onto the mold; lights out; into the dining room- and find twelve stoned happy guests dancing and singing in orgy, arms entwined, like a close-knit Borneo family celebrating the end of a promising mango harvest under a full moon. Our cognac flamed ("down the mountain slopes like molten lava") unheeded, the meringue sighed and slipped down a little more, the Truc candles sputtered and flickered, but we were happy. Our guests, after all, were happy...
Joplin's Pearl (Columbia) is not just her best LP, but in all probability the best ever recorded by a white female blues singer. In contrast to the blowsy, brassy backing of three earlier LPs, she is supported this time by the Full Tilt Boogie Band, a tightly knit combo dominated by Richard Bell's superb piano. Never before did she exercise such control over her voice. To hear her build Kris Kristofferson's country blues ballad, Me & Bobby McGee, from tree-shaded quiet into high-noon bustle is to know that pacing and nuance...
...spiral fractures of the tibia and fibula. But now that higher, more rigid ski boots are in style, doctors are encountering the more serious "boot-top fracture," in which the tibia and fibula are snapped well above the ankle. A simple ankle fracture takes six to eight weeks to knit properly; a simple boot-top break can require as long as 16 weeks...
Agonized Awakening. Until the revolt occurred, Yugoslavia seemed the Iron Curtain country least likely to give Stalin ideological trouble. Its tightly knit, fiercely dogmatic Communist Party worshiped Stalin as the father of Communism and the leader of the resistance to fascism. At first, after World War II, few Yugoslav Communists could bring themselves to believe that Stalin's aim was simply to take over their nation. Much of Dedijer's book deals with the agonized awakening to the Russian threat. He describes, for example, his own change of heart at a Russian-Yugoslav soccer match...