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...novel is continuing proof that Garcia is the master of putting a lot of story into a small space. Spanish austerity, religious authority, classical humanism and African animism compete in a tight setting of cultural decay and utter remoteness. "The city lay submerged in its centuries-long torpor" pretty much sums up the situation. When Mar?a asks Father Cayetano what is on the other side of the ocean, he answers wistfully, "The world...
While new acquaintances may be shocked by these adventurers' artificially colored locks, the dyers themselves seem to make the transition fairly smoothly. According to Brown, "The first day [after dyeing] is filled with utter glee and excitement. The second day is when you meet all those nagging doubts and you start to second-guess yourself. By the third day, though, you're used...
...scientific world) called the positively asserted by its owner to have been taken alive in the Feejee Islands, and implicitly believed by many scientific persons, while it is pronounced by other scientific persons to be an artificial production, and its natural existence claimed by them to be an utter impossibility. The manager can only say that it possesses as much the appearance of reality as any fish lying on the stalls of our fish markets-but who is to decide when doctors disagree? At all events, whether this production is the work of nature or art, it is decidedly...
...they do provide us with an utter escape from this world of "Reservoir Dogs" and "Natural Born Killers" through 1930s Hollywood grace, glamour and fancy footwork. They do remind us of an era that perhaps never even existed, save in a small RKO studio in the age of the truly silver screen...
Sanders rose from utter obscurity to relative fame when he joined John Coltrane's group in 1965 and began to scandalize and thrill audiences with his cataclysmic solos whose language was not melody but pure sound. Recordings from this period reveal a relentlessly experimental musician who can create fascinating textures with a seemingly infinite array of barks, yelps, squeals, buzzes, gurgles, and passionate cries. The grandiose scale of Coltrane's musical vision inspired Sanders to try and reach transcendence as he improvised for twenty or thirty minutes on compositions with names like "Peace on Earth" and "Love...