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They are counting on a good catch to replenish freezer stocks back home. They have wood for a fire, coffee and several pounds of deer sausage to eat. The day seems to be shaping up well...
...struck alarm into the hearts of the Swiss burghers with their antic cabaret turns in the Café Voltaire, their sound-poems and chance-collages. But their real impact on Zurich was negligible, scarcely a ruffle on the lake, in contrast to the importance that the Dada wood reliefs of Jean Arp have since assumed within the history of art. Even when Dada was politicized after the war, its actual effect on German politics was nil, and its impact on radical thought probably much smaller than the modernist legend would have us think...
...particular night when the Kroks recorded their latest album last spring, one version of the retrain sent the packed Sanders Theater crowd into paroxysms of delight, the longest and loudest laugh of the night. Their tuxedoed frames neatly outlined against the rich wood paneling, they sang "In Tommy's Lunch, Eurofags Do It," and the place went wild...
...been baptized as a child into the Ukrainian Catholic faith. He blew out the votive flame that had been lit on the 100th day of his captivity, and wept when the priest read the Sermon on the Mount. Metrinko now plans to retreat to a cabin deep in the woods for a few weeks. The hideaway has no phone or TV, but, he says "there's a wonderful fireplace, and I'm going to spend my time chopping a lot of wood to keep the fire going...
...sure the Brattle St. crowd is any better prepared for this than for Lulu. The best written part of the play, it seems to me, is Sir Flute's second-act monologue (which resembles Tom Stoppard's New-Found Land in a lower comic vein); here Wood seems to be speaking for himself, evoking the romantic America of Paramount and MGM: "You said all that pretentious rights-of-man nonsense, and then you went out and did it." With our hands on our guns and our heads in the sky, one might add. Wood is launching a broadside attack...