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...ease as they would be at a church potluck supper in Leon's home town of Souderton, Pa. Leon chatted with the last man in the village to accept Christianity: the son of the sorcerer. Lorraine sampled food that a Dani woman had just pulled from the braising pit hollowed out of the ground for the occasion...
Banco officials were soon telephoning around the world in a frantic search for funds. But even the banks that had stood by Brazil to protect their existing investments were fearful of pouring more money into what now yawned before them as a bottomless pit...
...Philharmonic Gets Dressed (Harper & Row; $10.50) is one of those rare collaborations to which the word classic instantly adheres. Karla Kuskin, author of 27 exemplary children's books, had an inspired idea: Why not follow an orchestra as it prepares for performance, not in the pit, but two hours ahead of time? Flutists and cellists, horn players and harpists, men and women climb in and out of tubs and showers, underwear and outerwear, cabs and buses, on their way to the place where, at the finale, they make the most beautiful music this side of Carnegie Hall. Under...
...went off to play substitute flutist in the pit of "Jesus Christ Superstar" where I was able to hit about 15 correct notes all evening. The night became a real winner when I realized that about half the cast and orchestra of JCS had made the callbacks and they were joking around about the dance tryouts the next morning and what a blast it was going to be. They all headed off to a party at Adams House while I went back to the Yard...
...Mouth" by R.E. Smith, a rancher's wife has to cut off the head of a dead, possibly rabid mare that had bitten her daughter. In Ian MacMillan's "Proud Monster-Sketches," prisoners of the Nazis bury their own dead: "Returning to the edge of the pit, staggering with exhaustion and aching with hunger, Kratko barely notices that they walk on the girl's back...