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Case no. 309 in the Tugela Ferry home-care program shivers violently on the wooden planks someone has knocked into a bed, a frayed blanket pulled right up to his nose. He has the flushed skin, overbright eyes and careful breathing of the tubercular. He is alone, and it is chilly within the crumbling mud walls of his hut at Msinga Top, a windswept outcrop high above the Tugela River in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province. The spectacular view of hills and veld would gladden a well man, but the 22-year-old we will call Fundisi Khumalo, though...
...each melody, then deliberately hide it amid equally alluring countermelodies. (I always remember how each early Orange Juice song begins, and almost never how any of them end.) The amateur connoisseurs in their Postcard days also knew how to handle production: nothing is muddy or inarticulate, but nothing is overbright or "too produced" or metallic or synth-damaged either. Nor is there a horn section. When Orange Juice signed to a major label, the evil corporate geniuses who did the signing persuaded them to add trumpets, backing vocals, and other extraneous gauzy trappings: if some songs...
...mist that carries lethal contagion." On Vice President Richard Nixon: "In politics this quiet young man is a killer....He is out for the kill and the scalp at any cost." On 1968 presidential candidate George Wallace: "the hillbilly Hitler." On Rep. Gerald Ford (R.-Mich) in 1966: "not overbright...
...gloomy, tobacco-juice effect. But people were used to it, and found their way about in the sunless brown caves of contemporary painting as readily as bats. The "transparent atmosphere" that Manet had striven for and achieved was blinding to them. They saw it as an arbitrary patchwork of overbright colors...
...closing, the choruses combined for three excerpts from Bach's B Minor Mass. As might have been expected, the Radcliffe sound often swamped Amherst--despite the ladies' obvious unfamiliarity with some passages. In addition, Paine Hall's overbright acoustics effectively smudged the counterpoint. The total impression was more of an impromptu singing party than a concert finale. ROSERY M. SIMON