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...Grim holiday reminders lay all about the smoldering site. Before coming to a halt, the plane had caromed into a vacant lot full of Christmas trees and decorations, scattering them in every direction. When bathed in the glare of the rescue searchlights, the huge upright red, white and blue tail section loomed above the disaster site like an eerie tombstone. One resident, Helen Pristave, had been in her kitchen baking holiday cookies when she heard the crash; Congressman Collins was on his way back to Chicago to coordinate a Christmas party for 10,000 children...
...fondness for programmatic schemes that can be startling and bizarre, but usually display his uncanny knack for drawing unfamiliar sounds from familiar instruments. "A kind of parable on our troubled world," to quote the composer, Black Angels uses the surrealistic screech of amplified strings to call forth the grim world of night insects in a way the listener is not likely soon to forget. Elsewhere, the players trill with thimble-capped fingers, bow crystal glasses tuned with water, even play maracas and tam-tams. What others might have left at the level of mere gimmickry, Crumb has turned into...
...camp follower, Widow Begbick. She knows the weakness intrinsic to all men especially strong ones, and eventually triggers Five's disgrace. Bloody Five's bravura balances Galy's passive foolishness. As surely as the latter metamorphoses into the army beast, the former weakens and falls. It's grim stuff of which to make laughter, and the comedy does become pretty sinister. Brecht mines the parallel veins of humor and despair, and the production succeeds in emulating him--almost...
...entirely separate histories. This volume skillfully examines the story of American expansion in all its derring-do, spectacular accomplishment and folly, from the chartered firms that settled the first colonies to Henry Ford's revolution on wheels. A very unblinking assessment in the earlier stages-there is a grim account of a slave voyage told through its expense files-the book offers only a fairly cleaned-up version of more recent entrepreneurial villainy. Recommended especially to readers interested in keeping up with the Dow Joneses...
...Grim Talk. Counseling is another important part of the care provided by the C.B.F. Dr. Virginia Canale, director of the transfusion clinic, tries to acquaint her patients with the nature of their disease, explaining it in terms that they can understand. A social worker and nurse meet regularly with the children's parents to help them adjust to the physical and psychological difficulties caused by the disease...