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...differently from most of the reporters there, who were concentrating on straightforward news accounts of the disaster. Callahan was drawn to the quiet ironies, the little images that told the story behind the story: the neatly piled clothes that had fallen out of a suitcase, the bottle of after-shave lotion that was unbroken amid the debris. "Everything seems to survive," he thought then, "except people." For his story, he strung those images together, a sportswriter taking the reader to places and situations in the sports world where no purchased ticket would ever permit him entry...
...knife and cut this pain from my heart" on previous albums now produces little of this feisty desire to combat debilitating odds. Pleads the jailed autoworker in "Johnny 99": "Then won't you sit back in that chair and think it over judge one more time And let 'em shave off my hair and put me on that execution line...
...friend suggested that he shave off his beard and call himself Noel Rehsielf, which is his name spelled backward. But Leon Fleisher said he would go on, which is no spelled backward. To demonstrate to the world that, after 17 years, he could once again range up and down a piano keyboard with both hands, he chose the most visible occasion he could find: the inauguration last week of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's $23 million Joseph Meyerhoff Hall...
...coherent operatic whole. By focusing on China Aster, composer and librettist have made the character of the Confidence Man (Baritone Brent Ellis) into a supporting player. Whenever they include other episodes from the novel-principally a scene in which the Confidence Man bilks a barber out of a shave by appealing to his trust-they needlessly distract attention from the main drama. The story of China Aster is not enough; the full story of the Confidence Man would be too much...
...average assault victims did not report their crimes to the police until an hour after it had occurred; robbery victims waited 23 minutes, burglary victims more than an hour. So even though police arrived at the scene of these crimes within three minutes of being called, an effort to shave a few minutes or seconds off response time would have meant little...