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Sitting in an armchair in the green-carpeted living room of his modest wood- frame house, Ellis, 55, sees nothing unusual about the way he brought up his boys. He never urged them to become musicians, he says, but made sure they were exposed to music and got top-level training once they showed an interest. "It wasn't any messianic thing. They had lots of teachers...
...Global warming. Every respected scientist in the nation agrees that global warming is a real phenomenon. Specialists argue over the amount of warming, but no one contends that the greenhouse effect is a hoax--no one, that is, except America's leading armchair environmentalist, White House Chief of Staff John H. Sununu...
That was one of Lazarre-White's better days,although he's probably the only one who remembersit. Eventually, a lot of people are going toforget Saturday, too. Including me. And you. Andthat 93,000-year-old armchair quarterback.Someday, even Mr. Cornell Football will forget thegrisly details...
...considerable risk of armchair psychoanylizing, I venture that that is not all this film is about. Mo' Better Blues has a strong autobiographical quality about it. I suspect that, together, Gilliam, the driven artist, and Giant, the pawn of economic forces--noticably non-Black--represent Lee himself. In light of Lee's previous praise of his own close family and his equally strong condemnation of a film industry he has found to be exploitive and racist, some of Mo' Better Blues's themes take on new meaning...
Yourow said yesterday that he hopes the event, which is cosponsored by the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics and the Summer in Boston program, will allow armchair senators a public forum for airing their views...