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...sang the blues, every misery, lust and hostility that had ever racked her fleshy 5-ft. 9-in., 200-lb. frame came out in the music. Her sense of pitch was phenomenal. She could hit a note right in the middle when she wanted to, but she could also shade a vowel with any one of a thousand different flat slurs that seemed always at her disposal. Her message came out with a clear diction few lieder singers could match. She shaped a song as though its architecture were sonata form, not repetitious twelve-bar patterns...
...Pedernales River shimmers under a fiery sun, but runs clear and full in the shade of the live oaks on the L.B.J. ranch. Cars, campers and minibuses drive past grazing cattle, cross the waterfall dam off Ranch Road One and turn toward the five-room cottage where the 36th President of the U.S. was born...
...offspring of Principato's union with Cynthia have "sallow skins and strange russet-colored hair" and answer to the jig-prompting names of Terrance, Sean. Noreen. Aloysius and Kathleen. To their Italian fathers dismay, they avoid the sun like moles, playing sourly in the shade or roaming dark hallways. Principato blunders through eleven years among this dreadful crew until his father, dying of cancer, announces that he will not mend his 35-year rift with Holy Mother Church and, far more shocking, intends to be cremated. The scandalized Corrigans mount a frenzied campaign to scoop old Principato into...
...back ground, Blue Moon is schmaltzy but fun: a lighthearted and amusing wave at an era that preceded Dylan's birth. Even better are his versions of Paul Simon's The Boxer and Gordon Light-foot's Early Mornin' Rain, the one just a shade more punchy than the original, the other just a shade more dawn-lit. Best of the borrowed songs, though, are his soft-slippered strolls through the California Gold Rush song Days of '49 and the woodsmoky American folk song Copper Kettle, as well as a brisk canter down that paean...
Sierra Club plans for recreational use of islands in Boston Harbor demonstrate another shade of citizen-serving thought. To provide "vital contact with a natural environment which is close" the club will develop Lovell's Island for hiking, arts and crafts work and other activities. Certainly anyone who's spent a hot two hours in a Sunday-in-July traffic jam should be enthusiastic about this project...