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Bill Bradley has lost his wife. He calls her name while charging toward the church across the street from his childhood home in Crystal City, Mo., but Ernestine Schlant has vanished. She is trapped somewhere behind the electronic thicket--a mad bristling of boom mikes and long lenses, tape recorders and power packs, TV cameras shouldered by guys who look like defensive linemen gone to seed, all of them barreling hell-bent for Bradley...
Three potty mouths in a thicket. ALYCE CROW Linwood...
...values for the dotted first theme, which these days tends to degenerate into rubato soup. The capital offenses were in the finale, where often his left hand growled indistinctly or pounded an ostinato where it should have been a more sensitive accompanist, and once he even wandered into a thicket of wrong notes. It made one grateful and Perahia did not have access to Beethoven's rickety old Broadwood piano...
Before this pool of money gets too far from its source, it might be wise to consider the legal thicket which surrounds it. The original 1882 charter of Radcliffe (then known as the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women) authorized two specific purposes: (1) "promoting the education of women with the assistance of the instructors in Harvard University," and (2) "the further purpose of transferring the whole or any part of its money or property" to Harvard "whenever the same can be so done" as to advance the first purpose in a "satisfactory" manner...
Journalists are the last to know. We're like terriers on speed; our heads spin at the slightest rattle. But history is a mule in the thicket; it moves when it moves. If you ask me, the story of the year could just as easily have been the moment when Iran lifted its fatwah bounty off the head of Salman Rushdie, or when Iranian President Mohammad Khatami gave an interview to CNN--baby-step signs of a revised national policy regarding the Great Satan...