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...Stravinsky pieces (problems which were evident in most of the orchestra's playing); the "Fireworks" in particular included some ambiguous string playing and a weak transition back to the fast material. The Ravel Pavane, however, was well played in a manner that was impressionistically hazy without degenerating into slush, despite some over-subdivided retenus on the part of Moshell. Cyrus Stewart's delicate phrasing of the horn solo was especially praiseworthy...
...Christian Biton (Jean-Claude) runs a ski shop in Switzerland. He and his buddies have a pretty good thing going, selling equipment and eyeballing the snow bunnies who fall by with enviable frequency. "I have very strong thighs," says one in a voice that could turn hard pack to slush. Smirks one of the shop boys: "Maybe you'd like to feel my pectorals some time...
...slate gray. Snow, which had fallen a few nights before, had turned to slush. About 50 people, some with small children, waited patiently for more than an hour in front of a former supermarket at 23rd and Madison in Seattle's shabby central area. When the doors opened at 10 a.m., the people entered quickly and filled shopping carts with free surplus food-dry beans, scrambled-egg mix and a score of other items. Hundreds of other Seattle residents followed, collecting an allotment of 40 Ibs. per person. In less than a week, workers at the store distributed...
...Funeral of Jan Palach." Though Palach was a Czech who set fire to himself after the Russian invasion of 1968, Shapiro says that his poem is "really about the funeral of America. More than anything I can say it demonstrates my real feelings." Excerpt: "Halfway in mud and slush the microphones picked up/ It was raining on the houses./ It was snowing on the police cars./ . . . And my own mother was brave enough she looked/ And it was all right I was dead." Shapiro adds: "There is a time when 1 may be willing to risk my life...
...Journal is another example of how it hopes to play the roles of both an international forum and a workshop for young local writers. Including samples of the work of Caribbean writer Orlando Patterson, whose "Trinidad" and "Sour Roses" open the section, and "Keep the Faith" and "Melting Slush" by Emory West '72, the poetry section is a well-selected representation of the current directions of black verse...