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...drag. Nobody really wants to hear Seinfeld's take on Halliburton unless it's accompanied by a laughtrack. Also, Cosby's comments deriding non-standard English seemed particularly off-base. Without non-traditional language, we wouldn't have Public Enemy rapping "Don't Believe The Hype," Diana Ross singing "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," or Bob Marley declaring he had "So Much Things to Say." Without slang, we wouldn't have the blues poems of Langston Hughes, or some of the patois-infused verse of Derek Walcott...
...went down to the airfield where the troops of the 101st were preparing to load onto C-47s for their flight to Normandy. He told the men not to worry because they had the best leaders and equipment. One of them looked at him and said, "Hell, General, we ain't worried. It's Hitler's turn to worry." "That spirit," Bush told the soldiers, "carried the American soldier across Europe to help liberate a continent. It's the same spirit that carried you across Iraq to set a nation free...
...comedy. What works for most people is two simple steps: 1) eat anything you want, but eat smaller portions and less often; 2) turn off the TV and move! Don't wait for someone to come along with a weight-loss patch that you can stick on. It ain't coming. JOHN R. MAYER Melville...
DIED. JOHN WHITEHEAD, 55, R.-and-B. artist best known for his 1979 hit, Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now, which has become the unofficial anthem of Philadelphia's professional sports teams; of a gunshot wound; in Philadelphia. The singer-songwriter who, with his partner Gene McFadden, wrote a string of R.-and-B. hits in the 1970s, was shot in the neck as he and a nephew worked on a car. Police say the nephew may have been the intended target...
...real news over the holidays, the nation's papers and airwaves filled themselves with pleas from mourning fans for Seinfeld to reconsider and speculation from any media buyers still in their offices about how NBC would survive the loss of the most profitable show on television. SAY IT AIN'T SO! reads the cover of this week's PEOPLE, which goes on to add, with only half-mock portentousness: "A stunned nation prepares for life without Seinfeld." --TIME...