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...their own right. Tenorman Wayne Shorter composed four tunes on the album, notably the tense and shadowy Prince of Darkness. Drummer Tony Williams contributes a mysterious ballad as well as his inspired, erratic drum effects. Bassist Ron Carter lays the undertone for Pianist Herbie Hancock's inimitable brush strokes of color, while Miles quavers the quintessential, kaleidoscopic themes...
...School is something which touches everybody. There is little doubt that objection to the Choate Club would be minimal if the group were composed entirely of students, or of faculty, and if the Law School were a low-key institution run on a pass-fail system. The outsiders could brush it off as "the beautiful people doing their thing." But a secret fraternal order of faculty and students does great damage at a competitive institution which justifies its competitiveness on the accuracy of its system for rewarding merit. Where one decimal point in the grade average means a jump...
...show the dreary interchangeability of the adulterers.) The novel is seen largely through Piet's intelligence and sensibilities. Most of the other male characters are unreal, merely equipped with identifying jobs and stigmata. Updike paints Foxy and Angela full-length and achieves an equal effect in far fewer brush strokes with Marcia and Janet, two of the husband swappers. The trouble is that with some minor differences, he seems to have used the same woman as model for them all-a well-meaning, even-temped, sexually adept American frau with not a bitch or a shrew, a man-hater...
...decided on drastic measures. Recalls Hotchner with a wince: "She ripped it off the moment I walked in. " That could have been a moment of pain for "Hotch,"except that the mustache was a phony, held in place by a coating of spirit gum. Undaunted, he has sported his brush on several occasions since. "It's a great comfort when you're feeling low," he says. "It's as restorative as a Bloody Mary when you have a great hangover...
Masson's approach was even more prophetic. Because he found the constant reloading of a brush impeded his "psychic impulses," he took to ladling glue onto a canvas, wiggling his fingers over it in patterns, then pouring sand into the glue to capture them. In addition, he squeezed color directly onto his canvases from a special tube, thereby antedating the drip paintings of Jackson Pollock by 20 years...