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...join Sun-Times reporters in digging into the complex financial puzzles posed by Keane's maneuvers. "Investigative reporting now," says Brunner, "has become a lawyers' and accountants' game." Finally the results of the investigations were rounded into story form by Co-Authors Thomas Moore and Edward Pound. Once the Sun-Times series began running, BGA called a press conference for Chicago's other three dailies as well as for radio and television reporters and confirmed the details of the Sun-Times story. This allowed the rivals to move in without being embarrassed by having to lift...
...sculpture-has disappeared. That certainty about the inclusiveness and eloquence of art was shared to some extent by every figure in the heroic years of modernism from (roughly) 1900 to 1940, by Joyce no less than by Picasso, by Matisse and Breton as well as by Stravinsky, Braque, Pound and Magritte. When it faltered, art suffered a slow leakage and underwent that loss of possibility and (worse) necessity that nearly everyone involved with its production, inspection, distribution and consumption feels today...
...succeed in his lifelong quest for a musical equivalent of Last Tango in Paris. But it seems to me that The Soldier's Tale comes much closer to bringing music into the twentieth century we know today, the century in which the common people--in the poems of Ezra Pound as well as the jungles of Indochina -- insist on asserting their rightful sway...
...instruments and the singing or acerbic melodies as individuals, free to speak for themselves for as long as it takes them. Above all you can hear it in his trust for the most vulgar, most basic element of music: "Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music," wrote Pound, "and music atrophies when it gets too far from the dance...
...logistical problems which this large field causes has led the Boston Athletic Association to impose qualifying standards. Such standards are a direct blow to 350-pound fraternity brothers who want a good laugh...