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...shoot at last week were her own monthold world records in the 400-meter free style (4 min. 32.6 sec.) and the 1,500-meter freestyle (18 min. 11.1 sec.). She shot 'em dead. First, she lopped 3.6 sec. off her 400-meter mark. Then, to the utter astonishment of everybody but herself, she churned through the 1,500 meters in an incredible 17 min. 50.2 sec.-20.9 sec. faster than any other woman has ever swum that distance. Was she proud? Was she pleased? She was disappointed. "I missed what I wanted," she grumped. "I figured on doing...
...rate the title song represents the new Beatles, the Beatles who have utter control over their audience, who can make them cheer, laugh at an unseen sight gag, and, best of all, shut up. "You're such a lovely audience, we'd like to take you home with us," sing the Beatles in one of the most obvious ironies of the album. Clearly they're thinking just the opposite, and have been for years. The song is a renunciation of their whole crowd-pleasing past, just as it is the realization of the artist's dream of total power over...
...voice begins, "I read the news today, oh boy,"--a strange, sad phrase which grows heavier as the song grows more hallucinatory. At first the news is about the Guiness heir, son of a Beer peer, dying in his Lotus elan, sad waste of youth, but comic in its utter meaningless. The singer turns on and the song turns more dreamlike, ushering forth a complex metaphor to rank with Dylan's best. "Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire/ And though the holes were rather small/ They had to count them all..."--this refers to Scotland Yard's search for bodies...
...Whisperers. Rattling around her scruffy flat, a penurious, retired domestic (Dame Edith Evans) lives a life of utter solitude in an atmosphere where the dripping of a faucet is a dramatic event. Her only companions are "the whisperers," unheard voices who speak in her cobwebbed brain, alternately providing her with companionship and terror. In the gritty industrial town in which she lives, time settles like the soot as she goes about her monotonous routine-a visit to the library to warm her feet on a radiator pipe; a stop at the police station to record the most recent threat...
...have received the gift of speaking in tongues, it can be an ecstatic occurrence. Glossolalia usually happens at the climax of a Pentecostal service, when the revivalist "lays on hands"-places his hand on the head of a believer, who frequently enters a trance-like state, begins to utter a stream of glottal syllables that Pentecostalists regard as prophetic speech...