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...Square in Somerville. Call 776-9667. Thursday: as seen on the Sting tour, IRS recording artist Vinx. Friday: John Lincoln Wright and The Sourmash Boys with Courage Brothers. Saturday: Rounder-Bullseye recording artist Little Jimmy King & Memphis Soul Survivors. Tuesday: Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick. Wednesday: James Brown's sax man Maceo Parker's Mo Roots featuring Fred Wesley and Pee Wee Ellis...
...quite a while before writers find an arena as morally complex or financially rewarding. Before World War II, the spy novelist usually took the low road: the hero was implausibly good, as in John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps. Evil was unambiguous. Sax Rohmer invested his villain, Fu Manchu, "with all the cruel cunning of an entire Eastern race . . . the Yellow Peril incarnate." But in the postwar period the public grew weary of caricatures, and only Ian Fleming could profitably drive on the old thoroughfare, with men like Doctor No and Goldfinger in the backseat...
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...BLUE NOTE (available from Mosaic, 35 Melrose Place, Stamford, Conn. 06902). Born in New Orleans in 1897, clarinetist and soprano saxophonist Sidney Bechet was one of the most talented and influential jazz musicians who ever blew a horn. As Louis Armstrong did for the trumpet, Bechet turned the soprano sax into a powerful solo voice. If Armstrong went on to achieve greater fame, Bechet had the more interesting life: affairs with Josephine Baker, Bessie Smith and Tallulah Bankhead; deportation from Britain; gunfights in Paris; and finally, ascension to the status of a national hero in France, where he died...
Shedroff understands that the curtain will soon close on his long juggling act, the four years he has spent keeping his fanciful dream and his academic pursuits up in the air. Graduation will demand from him a choice. Behind door A may lie fame, success and an even older sax, or only disappointment. Door B hides fewer surprises: a career in the law with an emphasis, he predicts, on public service...