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...Henry Matson, 62, recalls the night he strolled into a bar called the Great Alaskan Bush Co. with a $12,579.64 paycheck in his pocket. At least he remembers the beginning of the night. Matson, who had been fishing for salmon in Alaska's Bristol Bay, was looking for a good time in the rowdy Anchorage saloon. And he got exactly what he wanted, according to Owner Edna Cox, who agreed to cash Matson's check. He spent the night, she said, "buying all the patrons in the club drinks, paying numerous girls for table dances, handing...
...delivered a cargo ship, the Maui, to the Matson Navigation Co. in San Francisco. It was one of four Matson had built at three different yards from identical plans. The BIW ship was unquestionably the best. Says AJ. Haskell, Matson's senior vice president and a former Navy officer: "It may sound like I work for them. But look at the fairness of the hull, its smoothness, which is determined by the quality of the welding. You can walk down the pier and compare the Maui with the Kauai, the ship another company built for us. You can immediately...
...risky to theorize too much about Pilobolus. According to Matson, their choreography (always created collectively) proceeds more by intuition than by conceptualization. "Pilobolus goes straight to the heart; watching them, you can put your intellect away for a while," he says. And, both literally and figuratively, they're a refreshingly earthy bunch--"absolutely bawdy," says Matson, and "just as at home rolling around on the floor as standing...
...spirit may be that of kids in a pillow-fight: zany, uninhibited, with an unerring sense of propriety's absurdity and no holds barred. "It's real, and it's natural--there's so much innate pleasure in it for them, which is contagious," says Matson. But don't be fooled. Once you've seen Pilobolus, or Matson's book, neither a dancer's body nor your own will ever look quite the same again...
Pilobolus, a book of photographs by Tim Matson, is published by Random House...