Word: pick-up
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...cast is not yet an ensemble and many of the actors are slow on the pick-up. At times the pace is agonizing, for these are lines that must leap at one another like sparks...
...level of performance Friday night was generally high. The pick-up orchestra had its tentative moments but was otherwise enthusiastic and attentive. Soprano Dorothy Crawford and pianist Daniel Hathaway gave an excellent rendition of six Ives songs, and there were outstanding performances by David Archibald, clarinet, and D. Allan Shewmon, piano. The height of the evening was the massive Piano Trio (1904-1911), whose second movement bears the indication "TSIAJ" ("This Scherzo is a Joke"). This is one of those pieces that has to be heard live to be appreciated. The sight and sound of Shewmon and 'cellist Fran Uitti...
...Bick pick-up is a public spectacle. A patent-leather red-head comes in. Tall, about 30, as subtle as the Citgo sign in Kenmore Square. You just know she's a whore. She sits down next to some guy wearing a suit. "Wanna buy me some coffee?" is the line. Looks him right in the eye. Then they go out. There's something about the frank way that she looks at him. O.K., baby
Police were investigating reports of a red pick-up truck seen in the area, which may have been used to transport the stolen articles...
...chatted in almost flawless Spanish with farmers in a corn patch outside Mexico City. In El Salvador, he was charmed to hear members of a pick-up band tootle The Star-Spangled Banner, which they had learned by ear from a Peace Corpsman, who had whistled it for three days. In Panama, he visited an Alliance-financed grade school and attended a dinner honoring the fourth anniversary of the Alliance, which he heads as part of his assignment...