From:    Albertus Magnus                        Area: Metaphysical
To:      All                                    20 Jun 94 17:04:38
Subject: The Week in Death: June 6-9            UpdReq 

      POEM OF THE WEEK:
 ...``Snow on the headland,
  The strangely beautiful
  Oblique concurrence,
  The strangely beautiful
  Setting of death.
  *
  ``The great tongue
  Dries in the mouth.  I told you.
  The voiceless throat
  Cools silence.  And the sea-granite eyes.
  Washed the sibilant waters
  That stretched lips kiss peace.
  *
  ``The poet is dead.
  *
  ``Nor will ever again hear the sea lions
  Grunt in the kelp at Point Lobos.
  Nor look to the south when the grunion
  Run the Pacific, and the plunging
  Shearwaters, insatiable,
  Stun themselves in the sea.
    -- William Everson, from ``The Poet Is Dead,''
       a memorial for Robinson Jeffers
 THE WEEK IN DEATH (June 3-June 9)
 VERLON BIGGS (51), athlete.  A big-play defensive end with the
 Jets 1966-1970, and then the Redskins through 1974.  In the '69
 Super Bowl, Biggs forced a fumble that led to the Jets field
 goal that made the score 10-0.  He is the first member of the
 Jets championship team to die.
 WILLIAM EVERSON (81), Beat Generation poet.  Also known as
 BROTHER ANTONINUS.
 WILLIE HUMPHREY (93), musician.  A clarinetist, Humphrey was the
 oldest regularly performing musician in New Orleans, and had
 played with the Preservation Hall Band as recently as May.
 ISH KABIBBLE (86), musician.  MERWYN BOGUE, a cornetist with KAY
 KEYSER's band, adopted the character of Kabibble as the band's
 resident clown, acting dumb, singing silly songs, and from time
 to time delivering the odd quatrain of doggerel.
 DENNIS POTTER (59), writer.  The author of ``Pennies From
 Heaven'' and ``The Singing Detective,'' two of the most
 entertaining programs ever televised.  If you haven't seen
 either, you'll just have to trust us on this because they're too
 literate, gross, intelligent, mean, funny, innovative, touching,
 and sexy for any network potato-head -- even the ones at PBS --
 to likely ever risk re-broadcast.  That's also the reason why
 you'll probably never see any of his other works (all originated
 by the BBC).  Potter was one of the precious few TV writers who
 took it as an article of faith that you, a television watcher,
 are not as stupid as network executives and advertisers think
 you are.  The only people that are as stupid as network
 executives and advertisers think you are, Potter was fond of
 pointing out, are network executives and advertisers.  He was
 irreverent and caustic, and we're going to miss just knowing
 that this guy was out there, somewhere.
 BARRY SULLIVAN (81), actor.  Films included ``The Great Gatsby''
 (the 1949 version), ``A Gathering of Eagles,'' ``Stagecoach to
 Hell,'' and ``Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here.''
 EARLE WARREN (79), musician.  A singer and the lead sax player
 in the COUNT BASIE Orchestra.  As lead, he didn't get to break
 out that often, but when he did, his solos were smart and
 bluesy.  In the '50s and '60s, he led a band for ALLAN FREED,
 managed JAMES BROWN and THE PLATTERS, and conducted a band for
 DIANA ROSS.
 (The Week in Death is by Brian Santo, [B.SANTO@genie.geis.com].)
... Your long life will reflect the advantages of dying young.


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