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...records, Alpert plays both parts of the trumpet duet, achieves a two-dimensional effect by slightly altering the synchronization and recording one trumpet line a shade sharp or flat by a process he keeps secret in order to discourage the many imitators that have cropped up in the wake of the Tijuana Brass's success. And aficionados of pure mariachi, who once scorned Ameriachi, are now buying it. One of the ten best-selling records in Mexico City last week was the Tijuana Brass's Whipped Cream...
...villagers hailed me as they were heading off into the forest, and invited me to come along. We We walked to a small clearing where two palm trees had been felled, and they collected the palm wine from gourds that had been under the cut. We sat in the shade and drank the palm wine. One of the men explained to me, half joking, the importance of this drink to village life. It's cheap--25 francs for a groundful. In the morning, the men eat a little manioc, and empty a gourd of palm wine. Then, juiced up, they...
...Jilting, her grandmother is dying, and the story concludes with an eerie and wonderful description of death. "The blue light from the lamp shade drew into a tiny point in the center of her brain. Granny lay curled down within herself, amazed and watchful, staring at the point of light that was herself. It flickered and winked like an eye, quietly it fluttered and dwindled. God, give a sign! There was no sign. She stretched herself with a deep breath and blew out the light...
Mindful of Lyndon's pride in signing bills in the most appropriate possible place, Iowa's H. R. Gross suggested sourly that the President might hold the beautification-bill ceremony on Route 290 outside Austin, in the shade of a billboard advertising the Johnsons' TV and radio station. (The gibe was late; KTBC had removed the blurb last month.) Protested Illinois' Donald Rumsfeld, who supported the bill: "The Democrats were allowing no time to debate constructive amendments. All we could do was get up and hiccup. That's a helluva lousy way to legislate...
...standard part of U.S. military training. Some basic techniques for survival in the desert: drink water whenever you are thirsty, no matter how large or small your water supply is (if it runs out, it runs out; your ultimate endurance is not ensured by rationing it); rest in the shade through the heat of the day, travel only by night; keep your clothes on to minimize loss of body moisture through sweating; devise some sort of distress signal to attract attention from...