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DIED. RED NORVO, 91, jazz's original mallet virtuoso (vibraphone, xylophone and marimba); in Santa Monica, Calif. Born Kenneth Norville, he changed his name after an emcee mispronounced it. A masterly improviser known for moody, delicate arrangements, Norvo led several experimental--and highly respected--drummerless jazz bands. He also worked with Benny Goodman and Frank Sinatra...
...into a clown's mouth or maneuvering a mechanical claw over a bounty of stuffed animals, these games are nearly as addicting as they are difficult. With crafty vendors eager to lure you into "just one more game", the cautious funseeker needs to keep one hand on the mallet or safety pistol and one hand firmly on their wallet...
Often the saw or caulking mallet falls silent while I listen to that whispering, hearing the view from Paris about how the phrase "Native American" subverts United States immigrant assimilation, the opinion from India about the unwillingness of United States intellectuals to seriously analyze Federal farm policy, the laughter from Spain about American feminists as unable to go top-free on beaches as they are unable to nudge Congress toward state-funded daycare, the careful analysis from a half-dozen countries of Muslim imperialism versus the iconography of Madonna, the reminder from Rome that Italy once governed one-third...
...included were verbal threats of physical harm as well as scenes showing the aftermath of violence. Thus, finding a body in a pool of blood on NYPD Blue counts as a violent act; Kramer bumping into a door on Seinfeld does not. A cartoon character whacking another with a mallet counts; but the accidental buffoonery of America's Funniest Home Videos doesn...
...thebrink between ritualistic splendour and purekitsch. Unfortunately, that line was irrevocablycrossed on the tune that ended the set. PianistWilliam Henderson moved over to a Casio keyboardand punched out a bubble-gum pop vamp whileSanders danced around the stage. Sanders thenpicked up a huge metal hemisphere, banged it witha mallet and let the reverberations from the belllinger until they faded to the infinite. Withthis, complete Karmic transcendence of the soulwas reached, although a curiously cheesy smellremained in the air for a long time after...