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Elly Stone made it an ingredient of her debut. Oceans of eerie quiet still surround Brel's 16-bar novellas at every performance. The narrow, tremulous wraith appears in black velvet pants and jacket, a little lace jabot at her throat. The mordant chords purl from the back of the stage, and she becomes an authentically possessed figure. On the slow numbers, the words are not sung; they seem to float from her throat. The uptempo songs could survive almost any rendition, but when Elly sings them, she charges them with alternating currents of energy and melancholia. She does...
...four-way race, he reasons, Wal lace might pick up 13% or 14% of the vote. Nixon might expect 38% or 39%, while McCarthy and Humphrey would divide the remainder. Since no one would get more than 40%, there would have to be a runoff; McCarthy would have as good a chance as Humphrey to emerge as the man to oppose Nixon. The final race thus might very well be not Nixon-Humphrey but Nixon-McCarthy. The complications, however, do not end there...
...tied a swatch of lace around her belly, a big bow in back, and went to play in her sandbox...
...still knowledgeably documenting his casebook on people-exploiting-people. For beneath the mock-replica Tom Jones style, Westward to Laughter is a kind of quick history of the slave trade-a flashback, so to speak, from Maclnnes' novel of black London, City of Spades. Shooting his imitation-lace cuffs and pointing angrily from today's ghetto back to the West Indies of the 1750s, Maclnnes says, in effect: here's where it all started...
...start the second half, and when the Big Red widened the margin to 57-48, the Crimson went into a man-to-man defense. "When Harvard went into a man-to-man, I think we were able to get better offensive rebounding position," said Cornell coach Jerry Lace after the game...