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At times-Bundy displays a solid understanding of Behan's work, but, constantly, he falters. He interweaves the different themes and sub-plots with careful grace, but a bit too meticulously. Bundy's self-conscious style gives The Hostage an inappropriate solemnity. The frequent wisecracking of Behan's characters-their...

Author: By Jacob V. Lamar, | Title: The Celtic Twilight | 4/29/1981 | See Source »

According to the National Safety Council, heavy-footed Nevadans and Montanans face chilling risks on their highways: those states' automobile death rates are respectively first and third highest in the U.S., several times greater than in 47-mile-long Rhode Island, for instance. In February, when a bill to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drive Against 55 | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

Years later, in the record New Orleans Function, Armstrong recalled the traditional funeral by using Flee as a Bird as the processional dirge, Didn't He Ramble as a sample of swinging postburial music and an affectionate spoof of graveside eulogy. Says the Rev. Satchmo: "Ashes to ashes/ Dust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Louisiana: Jazzman's Last Ride | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

Albert Walters and his cornet took part in countless jazz funerals over the years. Now that his time has come, he is fondly remembered at his own funeral. The voice of English-born Drummer Andrew Hall, leader of Society Jazz: "You know his music had real feeling. He was funny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Louisiana: Jazzman's Last Ride | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

But not today. In half an hour it is over &3151;except for the receding ripples of laughter and neighborly joshing. The musicians mosey by twos and threes toward their cars at the hall. For a moment it is hard to remember the funeral that must by now have ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Louisiana: Jazzman's Last Ride | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

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