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...Sontag, art matters, sometimes more than life itself. Two fascinating pieces recount her rather daring directorial debut in Sarajevo in 1993, a time when rifle rounds were still zinging lethally across Sniper’s Alley. The play, Waiting for Godot, could have been exploited facilely—both in performance and in these essays—for its uncomfortable relevance in a place of such imminent mortality. But it is typical of Sontag that she embraces nuances whenever possible and measures out her observations carefully, with the political message demurely concealed beneath the aesthetic...
You’ve got to admit this sort of challenge is right up your alley. It’s bold, it’s unpredictable, and it’s completely inane. Who knows how you’d fare in blanking a skinny six-foot-nothing nobody with no organized basketball experience? The way I see it, if you can’t hold me scoreless, you really shouldn’t suit up again, anyway...
...grooves. The songs have a sense of history and a sense of discovery; hearing them is like finding a stack of vintage records in an old uncle's attic. The opening track, Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum, churns to a boogie-woogie-ish beat; the radiant Moonlight evokes Tin Pan Alley crooning and Western swing; and on the song High Water, Dylan pays tribute to blues pioneer Charley Patton. "All my songs, the styles I work in, were all developed before I was born," says Dylan. "When I came into the world, that spirit of things was still very strong. Billie...
Iverson has not always been a model citizen. He did four months in prison after a teenage brawl in a bowling alley (the conviction was later reversed due to insufficient evidence). His first few years in the league, he was openly insubordinate and in poor condition. But he's come around. This year Iverson forged a genuine bond with the 76ers brilliant, exacting coach Larry Brown and decided to become a team leader, a role he used to think was corny. He has also publicly expressed a desire to overcome what he's described as an inbuilt mistrust of authority...
...musical discovery. "On Internet radio they really try to lock in to a specific interest," says Brian Turner, a program and music director at Jersey City's fiercely independent-minded radio station WFMU. "I think some of the best discoveries you make happen when you're led down an alley by accident...