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...stinging pathos. Prostrated by his failure, Livingstone lies on his bed, near mental collapse. With self-imposed fortitude, Sechele shout-sings the hymnal verses, "Give me joy in my heart, keep me praising/ Give me joy in my heart, I pray," as if he were the trumpet of perdurable faith...
...these prospects have prompted curiously little celebration. Headlines about the decline in inflation have been modest, and often displayed on financial rather than front pages. Even the Administration, which made reducing inflation its top priority, is blowing only a muted self-congratulatory trumpet. The President complained rather mildly last week that the heartening price developments "haven't quite got all the attention that they deserve." He is correct, and although Reagan has refrained from taking credit for the drop in inflation, as well as from accepting blame for the recession that has helped to cause it, both have occurred...
DIED. Charlie Spivak, 77, chubby, cheerful, honey Atoned .horn player and bandleader, billed as "the Sweetest Trumpet in the World"; of cancer; in Caesars Head...
...Nottobee has a strappling and graceful character that tends to embarrass many of the more wooden folks around him. He, too has a singing voice you can hear--particularly in the show's best number. "Rain of Terror" Robinson's dazzling song-and-dance accompanied by a nifty trumpet solo by William Saleeby, makes as all-the-more painful contrast with the clinkers that surround...
There's really not a whole lot that makes sense in Cannery Row. For one thing, no one seems to do any work. And there are some rich people in town, but there's nowhere for them to live. And there's a guy who plays trumpet on the wharf whenever anything romantic happens. And there's also a piano on the wharf (and another in, of all places, Doc's laboratory) so that Mac can liven up spontaneous parties with his honky tonk jazz. And everyone speaks in cliches, and the sky is always purple and torrid like...