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Wagner believes that his tests could be used by music academies to weed out unpromising applicants, as well as by music teachers to "locate the exact physical shortcoming of a student and work out compensatory techniques." A pianist with a "stiff" finger, for example, could make more use of an adjacent note. Another result of his research, he maintains, is confirmation that the recurrent inflammations of the hand and arm suffered by musicians are the result of overtaxing their native skills-a musical variation on tennis elbow, football knee and surfer's knob...
...play that is so weak a link in O'Neill's ouevre that it would be better off missing. The truth is that Eugene O'Neill was afflicted with a love of novelty in the same way that many students are afflicted by a taste for the killer weed and the result is the theatrical equivalent of dead brain cells...
...Juan Matus. Don Juan was an exceptionally powerful "man of knowledge": a brujo, or sorcerer. Over the next ten years, Castaneda became his apprentice, as Don Juan initiated him into increasingly mysterious and alarming states of "non-ordinary reality" through the systematic use of three hallucinogenic plants: peyote, Jimson weed and psilocybe mushrooms. Thus far the outcome sounds predictable: student meets guru, blows mind, drops out and fries his brain cells with the Flesh of the Gods beneath a cactus. Not so: the young anthropologist turns out to be a man of tenacious curiosity. His meeting with Don Juan...
...danger is falling masonry. Since March, more than 30 pieces of stone -most weighing around 40 Ibs.-have tumbled, dislodged by weed roots or weakened by the vibrations from the 200,000 vehicles that thunder round the Colosseum each day and the subway trains that pass under its foundations at ten-minute intervals. "The Colosseum is not falling down," insisted one custodian last week. "It's just an old, old man who needs medical treatment...
...create new narrative forms, to engage in political satire and to tell stories. But the form is not yet ready, the satire is shrill, and the stories suffer. Chimera is an attempt to join the mythic experiments of Lost in the Funhouse with the storytelling--extravagance of The Sot-Weed Factor, and Barth himself seems not to have realized how monumental a task that...