Word: tahiti
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last piece on the disc is the widelyknown "Tahiti Trot," based on the popular Vincent Youman tune "Tea for Two." As the story goes, Shostakvich orchestrated the theme in 40 minutes after a challenge by a friend. Chintz turns into schmaltz at this point; the listener is treated to a seemingly endless (actually only three-minute-33-second) passing of the mindless theme from section to section. The best advice here is to listen for the melding of one texture into the next. Shostakovich manages to keep within the same balance of bass and treble parts, though he sometimes bursts...
...lost our private rooms; out with thebed, in with the double-bunk (happily, SibylBeckett '44 and I had fun, despite the crowding).Breakfast became self service, and rationing tookhold (mournfully did I stare into a fullhalf-gallon of coffee, to view the bottom clear asa coral reef in Tahiti--you had to drink it all toget any kick...
Gould conveys the necessity of conservation, however, just as clearly as Band Professor of Science P.O. Wilson does in his recent Diversity of Life. Beginning with some real-life trouble in Tahiti, this message carries explicitly through Gould's first three essays, ending with a reflection on the loss of the limpets, a snail whose shell "looks like a Chinese hat of the old caricatures." Through Gould's superb interweaving of history and biology, the limpet becomes a poor pitiable and yet complex organism, with symbolic meaning for other endangered species...
Bezek, the Israeli national phone company, has launched a popular service: faxes to God. Bezek employees carried more than 300 faxes to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem last week, many of them sent from as far away as Tahiti, India and Norway. One hopeful Israeli faxed his lottery number. International supplicants, dial...
...strong to keep Anita in the schoolroom for long. She spent a year in Paris clipping newspapers for the International Herald Tribune, another year in Geneva working for the United Nations, and then hit what she calls the hippie trail. She boarded a boat for Tahiti, passed through New Hebrides and New Caledonia on her way to Australia, and ended up in Johannesburg (by way of Madagascar and Mauritius). There she ran afoul of the laws of apartheid by going to a jazz club on a "black night" and was packed off to England by the South African police...