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UNLIKE Nat "King" Cole and the like, "King" Buddy Bolden is not a well known figure nor is his life well documented. But he was one of the first great jazz trumpet players and Coming through Slaughter attempts to explain and understand his life through a cultural portrait of turn-of-the-century New Orleans. Because of the paucity of facts--only one known portrait of Bolden exists--the poem-play employs a combination of fantasy, music and hallucination in place of more traditional devices like plot and dialogue...
...payment-in-kind (PIK) program, which provides subsidies to farmers for keeping their fields fallow. Analysts estimate that the corn yield will be down by 25%, or $4.5 billion worth. In the short term this may mean lower prices for meat as ranchers rush their herds to slaughter rather than continuing to fatten them. But in the long run it could mean significantly higher prices for both meat and grain...
...crew of the Rainbow Warrior for taking on the Soviet Union in its fight against the slaughter of whales [Aug. 1]. Perhaps next year Greenpeace, the environmental group that opposes whaling and ran the Rainbow Warrior expedition, can work on this side of the Bering Sea to stop the butchering of the poor walrus...
...result of a crime in which the U.S. had no part? and 2) Why not commemorate all victims of genocide? The answer to these questions lies in the realization that the destruction of the Jews was an irrational act that had no political, economic or military justification. The slaughter was the logical outcome of a twisted ideology based on the concept of a master race and was a unique phenomenon in history. All countries should have a Holocaust monument so that people will remember the horrors that a perverted idealism can cause...
...opposition blocs seemed intent on throwing all their ammunition into a frantic final effort to slow the Thatcher juggernaut. Deputy Labor Party Leader Denis Winston Healey launched a merciless, near hysterical attack on Thatcher for her leadership during the Falklands war. Speaking of "this Prime Minister who glories in slaughter," he accused Thatcher "of wrapping herself in the Union Jack and exploiting our soldiers, sailors and airmen." The outburst stunned even the opposition. Replied Conservative Party Chairman Cecil Parkinson: "This must win the prize for the most contemptible statement of the election campaign." Thatcher declared that Healey's remark...