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...contribution to jazz mythology will be modest. Eddie Durham tells of how Basie's "One O'Clock Jump" was renamed when radio censors vetoed the original title, "Blue Balls." McShann provides yet another anecdote about how Parker came to be called Yardbird. Ricker's 24 hours of rough footage doubtless contained many more interesting stories, but as a movie, not an oral history project, the film's wonderful sense of pace easily offsets an occasional choppiness in cutting from one bull session to another...
...Bach's rollicking The Stoned Guest. It is simply impossible to come away from this dual presentation pondering the somber thoughts of The Medium when these dark thoughts are washed over with light P.D.Q. mockery. Although Peter Schickele (P.D.Q. Bach) might have revelled in this jocular juxtaposition, Menotti would doubtless have been displeased...
...soybeans as well as silver. He has also made and lost fortunes in oil, directs the Hunt family's control of one of the nation's largest sugar-beet processors, and owns what may be the world's largest stable of race horses (600). Altogether, his activities would doubtless please his late father, the legendary oil billionaire H.L. Hunt...
...opinion after he took his last poll was still shifting fast. Says Clark: "In a poll, you are only measuring opinion at a single point in time. Things change and opinions change." It was just such a shift that threw the New Hampshire polls off. Bush and Reagan were doubtless close, but on the Saturday night before the election, Bush got trapped in his refusal to let other G.O.P. candidates join his debate with Reagan, and opinion quickly shifted against...
...Bank of America report, in sum, portrays a growing industry that eventually will be looking for markets abroad but that is in need of equipment and technology. There could be good opportunities for foreign involvement, but Silin's realistic assessment of the difficulties China faces has doubtless dampened some of the grander illusions about a vast and voracious new Chinese market just coming in sight...