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...Henry James emerged as "faintly tinged rose water." Ezra Pound was "humbug." Aldous Huxley, "in spats and grey trousers," proved eminently resistible. The elegant aphorist Logan Pearsall Smith left an impression of "perfect sentences of English prose served up in a muffin dish, over a bright fire, with the parrot on a perch...
...campaign, a campaign so lacking in a discussion of real issues." Even in the debates, the candidates had narrowed the range of things they intended to say no matter how a question was put; they were, until the last and best debate, often demeaningly petty; they felt free to parrot lines they had used many times before, and as a substitute for argument they regurgitated mouthfuls of numbers that were a feat of memory in an absence of thought. Nonetheless the candidates had to respond to questions they would have preferred to avoid...
...Penny, under the Blue Parrot on Mt. Auburn St., has live music too, but it tends toward the folkish and is always full of rather bizarre people who are looking for someone to pick up. Not cheap, but they have a better selection of wines than most places around--although if you're setting yourself up as a wine connoisseur, you should probably go to the Wine Bar in the garage instead--but prepared to spend...
...except that a plastic bag is tied over the victim's head to deprive him of oxygen. In the Grill, the victim is stretched out face up on a metal frame while a "massage" of shocks is delivered to various parts of the body. A Brazilian invention called the Parrot's Perch is used in many countries; it consists of a horizontal stick from which the prisoner is hung by the knees, with hands and ankles tied together. Another common technique, called the Telephone, consists of delivering sharp blows to both ears simultaneously, which often causes excruciatingly painful rupture...
...rehearsals in New York and tryouts in Philadelphia and Washington. But when it finally reached Broadway's Mark Hellinger Theater, the critics found its view of American history "bleak and patronizing" and its humor -typified by such lines as Dolly Madison saying "I must go feed my parrot, his language is becoming scandalous" -unbearably flat. While some found Bernstein's score strong, rich and melodic, others said it was "self-derivative" and unable to rescue "a bum idea that has arrived in confusion...