Word: vinegars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...VINEGAR PUSS...
With a few sparkling exceptions, the pieces collected in Vinegar Puss (written mostly during the past five years) show Perelman at his second best. But this is usually the case in humor collections: the author is always made to look as if he is playing Can You Top This? with himself. Pieces that look good in the casual format of a weekly magazine are rudely upstaged by the hand ful that are very good...
...Wilmer David ("Vinegar Bend") Mizell, 44, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development at $38,000 a year. A North Carolina Congressman and onetime major league pitcher with the St. Louis Cardinals and Pittsburgh Pirates, Mizell served on a House subcommittee handling aid to depressed areas. "This is my kind of bailiwick so to speak," he says of his new job. "I think the opportunity to serve in an area where I had such a real interest and involvement led me to stay...
...original composer. He snuggles into history like a time traveler, singing in a husky, good-natured voice that carefully preserves a ragged edge. But it is his w12ardry with a bottleneck that gives him a tangible link with the old Delta bluesmen. Cooder applies the neck of a vinegar bottle to his Martin D45 guitar and makes the music ring, giving the notes a natural resonance in which you can almost hear the past...
...worth as far as the final Ivy standings are concerned. What the game will determine is just what kind of taste the Crimson will have in its mouth after the season ends. A win would provide a little sugar for the summer months. A loss will simply add more vinegar...