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...might be the performance. A fifty-four person chorus, five soloists (including an extremely crisp Narrator) and an orchestra using period instruments performed in one of Boston's more sublime National Historic Landmarks, Jordan Hall (where the floor is radically slanted towards the stage, giving the mezzanine a definite whirlpool effect...
...miles northeast of San Francisco, and find her lying immobile in a filthy bed. "She was not turned and kept clean and dry, which led to the bedsores," Ann recalls. A bedsore on Bessie's left hip turned into a gaping wound that would not heal, despite repeated whirlpool baths. Creekside nurse Patricia Lloyd knew why: the special washing machine for cleaning dirty bedpans had broken down. "So we washed bedpans in the whirlpool," she says, "and then we'd put patients with big bedsores, like Bessie Seday, in there." Fixing Bessie's wound required repeated surgery, including the removal...
...Rhapsody of Negro Life (1934) with artful lighting of black laborers, and moody shadows caressing the young Billie Holiday. Aubrey Scotto set most of A Rhapsody in Black and Blue (1932) in a cleaning man's dream kingdom, Jazzmania, where Armstrong scats among soap bubbles and disappears into a whirlpool of multiple exposures...
...classic '90s sensible luxury item. At the low end of the tow end, trailers start with a $3,000 folding-camper model. At the high end, $80,000 buys a luxury liner (a "fifth wheel" in RV argot) replete with mechanical slide-out rooms, ceramic kitchen tile and Whirlpool bath. And they fit nicely behind that other '90s sensible luxury item, the sport utility vehicle...
...toward "strategic philanthropy"--giving in a way that benefits the corporate bottom line--is unmistakable. In the lean and mean 1990s, companies are taking a close look at where every penny they give away goes. More and more, they are focusing on areas that resonate with their customers. So Whirlpool, whose main customers are mothers, concentrates on funding things like child care and job training for women...