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...handful of the cold pozol and put it in our bowls, adding water and stirring it with the brown water. If it was not too many days old, it was not too sour. The Indians carefully cleaned out their bowls, picking up the last wet crumbs with a swish of their dark fingers around the inside of the bowls...
...tormented by a particularly hideous trauma. The only switch is that during rehearsal before the Philadelphia opening of Big Fish, Little Fish, the girls' school was a boys' school, the seduced girl was a boy-and the cast's private title for the play, Big Swish, Little Swish. The plot change may start Broadway theatergoers thinking. What do people in New Haven know about Willy Loman that others don't? Was Blanche DuBois named Bernie in Philadelphia...
...appeared. Alarmed, RCA in 1958 assigned an engineer-composer named Jack Somer. then 23, to see if he could save Toscanini for stereo. It took him two years to produce a recording that sounded convincing and that was not afflicted with such normal recording hazards as "grit, ticks and swish...
Actions & Gestures. Like a lazy mocking mirror of human folly flow the canals of Venice. Novelist Pasinetti tellingly evokes "the bride of the sea," with its funereal gondolas, its swish of steps and voices and waves on marble landings, its wheeling pigeons under a volley of church bells. Pasinetti was born in his setting, is now a professor of Italian at the University of California at Los Angeles. He wrote his novel in Italian and then translated it into English on a tape recorder, a method that gives the book a convincing, though sometimes too pronounced, foreign accent...
...Miami . . . greatest jet frequency . . ." and 3) ". . . the bigger, more powerful, longer-range version of the most experienced of jets." Continental's Chicago-Los Angeles flight advertises that only its "golden jet has a cabin crew of live," promises at mealtime that "the hostesses will slip on gold smocks, swish up and down the aisle" to serve the passengers. KLM proffers "real china at dinner." Air-India puffs its coming jet service as "the airline that treats you like a maharajah . . . Ask any potentate...