Word: matadors
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Until this year, Pollard & Co. hadn't played a live show since 1987 (they've now played three); all of their previous records have been on labels that are to the big, well-known independents (Matador, Sub Pop) about as GBV's hometown, Dayton, Ohio is to New York City. With Vampire they've moved up to the level of Cleveland. (Literally: Scat Records is based there.) This is the first GBV release there's a good chance of finding in a non-exceptional record store: the CD version includes twice as much music, since the last half...
...past few years probably consumed more debate time than any other function of government. Ronald Reagan entered office suggesting that government had no business financing or endorsing cultural activity. A dozen years later, the Republicans left the White House having turned the NEA from a sacred cow into a matador's bull -- and having diverted a third of its nominal allocation to potential pork barrel by state arts councils. Even that wasn't enough for Jesse Helms and Patrick Buchanan, who sought to abolish the NEA for purportedly funding obscenity and irreligious bigotry, based on a handful of controversial grants...
...weeks ago I saw bullfight in Madrid. I didn't enjoy it very much. The killing of the bull did not disturb me, I just didn't see the point. The matador has all the advantages. But there are always those horns. After three bulls were killed that day, it finally happened to a matador. It didn't bother...
...Senator Bill Bradley is willing to try to define it. "He sees the game conceptually. He sees the whole game and the whole court, and he sees it in the context of the entire season." The writer John McPhee puts it in a different context. "Pete has a matador's view of basketball. It is a ritual, an art, a series of set pieces, one following the other like a series of slides." Yet George Leftwich, a gifted offensive player at Villanova, currently a college coach, is occasionally puzzled. He has asked his son George Jr., a starting guard...