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...recital began without fanfare, as Bartoli walked to the center of the stage, took a breath, and began to sing. Her only accompaniment was a therobo, a type of Baroque guitar that looks somewhat like a glorified soup spoon. This humble arrangement, however, was deceptively simple. Bartoli's first notes were tentative and seemed a bit unsure, but as she worked her way through four works by Guilio Caccini, she one could hear the strength coming into her voice. Bartoli showed hints of her vocal range by alternating between faster, animated songs ("Tu ch'hai le Penne, Amore," and "Amarilli...
...Being someone who put himself through school, a lot of them have a silver spoon in their mouths," Bellach says with a mischievous grin. "A lot are from poor backgrounds and work their butts off, and others are just daddy's little boys. They have the same thing at BU, but here they have more Gucci bags...
Dazed and irritable from six months without a full night's sleep, James Elliott curses at the sound of a banging spoon. Then he remembers why he listens for it in the first place: it means his mother Ella can't breathe. Leaping to her bedside, James grabs a suctioning device and calmly pulls the mucus from his mother's tracheotomy tube, as he has every two hours since Ella, 73, was diagnosed with terminal throat cancer in April. "I don't know what I'd do without him," Ella silently mouths. The tube, which enables her to breathe...
...Traditional Smithsonian-esque political memorabilia abounds, including 13-inch statues of each president, each accompanied by a small glass case of presidential doo-dads (including a spoon from Coolidge's inauguration, a pair of the Reagans' wine glasses and a Clinton golf ball). The first ladies are represented as well; inaugural ball gowns line one wall. One seven-year-old girl, pulling her mother by the hand, passed judgment on each dress: "I'd wear that one, not that one, that one, that one...." Personally, I gave Pat Nixon's gown the highest marks: A clean, simple cream-colored satin...
...that all their names have flown out of my head before I even reach the bean dip? What does it mean if I walk into a room on an errand of some kind and discover that I can't remember if I came in for a dictionary, a soup spoon or a socket wrench? After a certain age, does everyone's cranial zip disc start to fill up? Or worse, can mundane, mid-life memory glitches actually be warning signs of such later-life dementia as Alzheimer's disease...