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Poverty itself is both suffocating and ugly, and when its portrait is drawn by the victims, no one can doubt its reality. But there can be such a thing as too much detail, particularly if the details do not vary much. One rat bite can serve for a hundred. The assorted Ríoses are sometimes indistinguishable; the reader may find himself turning back to the chapter heading to see which one is talking now. He may get lost, too, in the endless procession of Ríos swains, lovers, husbands and cash customers, and in the steady passages between...
...Seven years ago, he suffered a heart attack and was told by doctors that he would never play again. Though he has had three seizures since, he still keeps pounding away. "I've got to," he exclaims. "What am I going to do? Sit around the house and bite my nails?" Not content to be just the highest-paid ($1,500 a week) sideman in music, he left Harry James's band in March "to put music back in its perspective, to offer something else than just twang, twang, twang." His new band, he says, has nothing...
...Embezzlers may "average" their incomes for federal tax purposes-just like any other taxpayer who would otherwise face an unusually big bite for an unusually big year. According to the Supreme Court, an embezzler must pay taxes on what he steals. Apparently anticipating this situation, an embezzler of state sales taxes asked the Internal Revenue Service whether he could use the averaging provision that Congress enacted in 1964. Without revealing his identity, the IRS reported that the law bars averaging only for such specific items of income as bets, bequests, gifts and capital gains. Since the list fails to mention...
Whether the characterizations in this little fable were correct or not is debatable. But the idea of portraying Loeb people as animals was unquestionably a stroke of genius. Like animals, they (a) growl, (b) bite, and (c) growl and bite each other more than the common enemy. Maybe this is characteristic of theatre people everywhere, but it was certainly true of the Loeb community in the Spring...
...sword springs from nowhere, an orange fountain gushes from center stage, a tenor flies into the flies. The singing, which requires a display of vocal acrobatics that few performers can successfully negotiate, was excellent. Loudest bravas went to Christa Ludwig, whose lusty soprano and hip-swinging histrionics had bite and conviction...