Word: organized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...congregants of Corpus Christi are praying on borrowed time. Displaced from their Roman Catholic parish, 550 of them have assembled at the Downtown United Presbyterian Church in Rochester, N.Y. They sit upright in the shiny pews, unused to the immaculate splendor of the organ that frames the altar. But all the strangeness of the loaned space is quickly forgotten in a rustle of excitement. "Oh yeah, she's starting," whispers a parishioner as a sandy-haired woman wearing an alb and cropped green stole stands before the altar...
...sports radio talk-show host b) acupuncturist c) organ grinder d) mime...
Kids clearly rule when it comes to playing dress-up and Jean explains that "adults are more into period clothes, playboy bunnies, regular stuff, monkeys--y'know, with the organ grinder." Either costumes for adults are overly involved--incorporating rented masks, wigs and clothing--or terribly boring (e.g. "I'm going as myself."). Kid Supermen and Jasmines concur: "time to give it up, grownups...
Quieter but even more arresting is "Electric Light," in which an electric organ at the lowest possible pitch substitutes for a flickering neon sign, illuminating and concealing the body of a female lover at regular intervals. The music never changes, and Harvey just watches, confessing that "she tears my heart out, every time." In the last verse, her voice lilts to a high, thin whisper as though all oxygen had run out of the room; the counterpoint to the neon drone bewitches, and Harvey, ever economical, stops the track early before the moment could be lost...
...shriveled liver and begins the delicate work of suturing all the various vessels and ducts from the new liver into Hunter's system. At 12:30 in the morning, the moment of truth arrives when the clamps are removed and blood is allowed to flow into the new organ. It works--at least for now. It will be three or four days before they can tell if Hunter's body will accept...