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Review of Robert Altman's `Kansas City'
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Elvis Mitchell review's director Robert Altman's latest feature film,
"Kansas City". Mitchell says Harry Belafonte dominates the picture
with his portrayal as Seldom Seen, Kansas City's biggest gangster.
SCOTT SIMON, Host: Nineteen thirty-four, Kansas City. A town where
the mob set the rules and Count Basie set the beat. Director Robert
Altman tracks his famous light and camera through the city's clubs
and streets in his new film Kansas City, with Harry Belafonte starring
as a gambling kingpin named Seldom Seen, who's heard here giving philosophical
advice to ...
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The bull-roarers. (poem)
Magazine article from: TriQuarterly
; ...branches. For the first time they face an absolute darkness made terrifying by the approach of divinity announced by the bull-roarers. They come for me when it gets dark. Large and silent, wearing mummers' masks, badger claws chinging at their...
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Make it & Play it
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post
; ...lined up. From the outside one might say that I had the bull by the proverbial horns. I felt like I was dangling under...We will make our own clay instruments like ocarinas, bull-roarers, rattles, xylophones and Udu drums from Nigeria. We...
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When we were very young
Magazine article from: Natural History
; ...War. Children's toys today include many low-tech items that are common around the world. Rattles, whistles, bull-roarers (a slat of wood tied to the end of a thong and whirled around the head), balls, tops, and buzzes are fun to play...
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ENCHANTED EVENING AT SYMPHONY
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...something specifically primordial about the piece -- one of the many wonderful participatory sounds is the whirr of bull-roarers, instruments that date back to the paleolithic age. There's also the anklung, an Indonesian rattle that sounds...
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The Lost Drum: The Myth of Sexuality in Papua New Guinea and Beyond.
Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
; ...acoustic representations. The myth, however, can become an imaginary object itself, like the drums, flutes and bull-roarers that are always detaching themselves from their owners and wandering about in the mythic narratives; myths themselves...
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John Cage knew how to listen to the world
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...so he had four low marimba notes constructed -- they sounded like the bells from a submerged cathedral; he wanted bull-roarers because they are prehistoric instruments. "I guess I chose some of the sounds," the composer admitted sheepishly...
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INTERVIEW
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...hyperactive children's chorus enacting its precociously knowing ceremonies of innocence to the accompaniment of popguns, bull-roarers and giant humming-tops - it is, in essence, "totally static, a giant decoration of the chord of E flat". It...
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Classical: English Bach Festival Royal Opera House London
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...brass, and cataclysmic outbreaks of massed percussion - wind and brass players even take up triangles, whistles and bull-roarers as the chorus of Furies snap at Orestes with wooden clappers on stage. At the very end, we all got to join in, as...
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 "Sun, The: Glen Ellyn (IL)")
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Newspaper article from: Sun, The: Glen Ellyn (IL)
; ...red-work embroidery and tatting; toys, games and crafts from the era, including graces, stilts, buzz saws and bull roarers; log cutting using a two-man saw; rope making; writing with a quill pen; horse shoeing; an area resident presenting...
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 "Deseret News (Salt Lake City)")
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Teardrop car shape can slice air drag
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
; ...from anywhere in the world -- panpipes, music boxes, maracas, carillons, conch shells, guiros, jaw harps, even bull-roarers, washboards and toy spinning tops. Send STRANGE questions to brothers Bill and Rich at strangetrue@compuserve...
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