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Nearly as impressive was Karl Kohn's The Red Cockatoo (1954), based on three Chinese poems of extraordinary beauty. Lime Woollen, Kohn understands how to emphasize a world without a shout from the singers or an unnecessary consonance. The percussive piano solo functions as a commentary on the singing piano solo functions as a commentary on the singing and only rarely stoops to outright chinoiserie. The Monk from Shu is especially effective in its delicate evocation of "icy bells." The climactic poem, however, fails to give the work a proper finish. The fate of the red cockatoo in the poem...
...annual titanic, reports from Still-man Infirmary indicated that all was not well in the Lampoon camp. Apparently suffering from an overdoes of a mysterious oriental drug, the Poonsters were lying on beds of pair tonight. "We were tricked,' groaned Oliveyl Q"isling, relief hurler. "I suspect Deceitful Cockatoo of feeding the team some poisoned rhubarbs at the game...
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Misogynist. In Philadelphia, a cockatoo named Scratch-Patch picked open the lock of his cage (where he lived with six lady cockatoos), moved to another cage, where he pried open the door and moved in with eight bachelor parrots...
Married. Mignon Eberhart, 47, whodunit hatcher (The White Cockatoo, The Patient in Room 18); and John P. H. Perry, 64, vice president and director of the Turner Construction Co.; both for the second time; in Chicago...