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...CD—“I truly love you but I cannot sing, and yes I could scream your name as loud as I’ve wanted to, as loud as I should, but my band is far too small for anyone to hear it anyway.” Is this a mature statement of the limitations of the medium to express the depths of certain feelings? Or a giving up of sorts, a repudiation of the punk-rock tradition of singing-when-you-can’t-sing, giving it all you?...
Some of Barnard’s more technical points may have been lost on amateur clay enthusiasts anyway. When, at one point during the demonstration, Barnard asked for a bat, at least two participants rushed off to the back, returning moments later with a round board used to enlarge the wheel’s surface for bigger projects. Soon after, while watching Barnard manipulate the clay, one observer marveled cryptically to another, “look at how he uses the spiral there, brings it in and pushes it out again...
...Your War On” if John F. Kerry managed to bump President George W. Bush out of the White House in November. The editor, who’d been trying to get Rees to branch out and write some actual articles for the magazine anyway, agreed to the deal, and the fate of the cartoon strip was thrown to the hands of the voters...
...World Trade Center. Oskar's many obsessions include physicist Stephen Hawking, playing the tambourine, looking for mistakes in the New York Times, and inventing things: "There are so many times when you need to make a quick escape, but humans don't have their own wings, or not yet, anyway, so what about a birdseed shirt?" And so on. When Oskar discovers a mysterious key in his late father's closet, he embarks on a picaresque journey through New York City to find the lock it opens. It's his strange, private, obsessive way of dealing with death...
...grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die of euphoria. I don't know if he actually said that, since I've never seen it documented, but it sounds like him. And if he didn't say it, he should have, and I will give him credit for it anyway...