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This should not suggest, however, that Jagger has taken up lyre and goose quill to compose tremulous anthems for broken hearts. Wandering Spirit cooks and boils in Jagger's chosen area of expertise: shin-splitting, butt-kicking rock 'n' roll. Out of Focus, the self-mocking Put Me in the Trash and the stops-out title cut show conclusively that old Jumping Jack Flash may be showing his age, but he's not slowed by it. Time, all of a sudden, is on his side again...
...conservative than their 18th- and 19th century successors, Gutenberg based his early type (not included in this exhibit) on the black-letter style used by German scribes (see the banner of The Boston Globe and The New York Times). Others experimented with types that looked like the monk with quill calligraphy to which literate people were accustomed. Such types become known as italics. Still others imitated everyday handwriting, and a fourth group copied the sturdy, draftsmanlike formality of the letterforms from Roman columns...
...heavy first number blends into the even heavier "Dirt in the Ground." Waits' reflection on death is original and, despite the depressing topic, exhilirating to listen to: "The quill from a buzzard/ The blood writes the word/ I want to know am I the sky/ Or a bird/Cause hell is boiling over/And heaven is full/We're chained to the world/And we all gotta pull/And we're all gonna be/...Just dirt in the ground...
...this moving display of friendship, this tradition which I'd just entered. Here was the idyllic setting I had refused to allow myself to imagine. Never mind that Harvard's past was not part of my own cultural heritage. For someone who had gone gaga over things colonial--over quill pens, tricornered hats, and Georgian architecture--living in Holworthy, in the Yard, was perfect...
...Thrifty consumers who bought more than $183 billion worth of merchandise by mail last year welcomed last week's Supreme Court decision not to allow state taxation of out-of-state mail-order sales. But in rebuffing North Dakota's effort to collect a use tax from the Quill Corp. of Lincolnshire, Ill., the nation's largest mail-order office-product supplier, the high court punted the issue back to Congress and cleared the way for future legislative action authorizing states to impose use taxes on out-of-state consumers...