Word: barkely
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Still, Sophie's World may not be for everyone. The characters are half- dimensional, the plot creaks, and Gaarder's prose (or the translation by Paulette Moller) has a distinct flavor of bark. As fiction, Sophie's World deserves no better than a D+. But as a precis of great thought, Gaarder's tour de force rates a solid...
Matt is constantly surrounded by music. Heplayed the bagpipes for years, although now theymainly just sit in his closet. He is alwaysexperimenting. Music, playing and performingmusic, is his passion. "I like to drive a lot," hesays, as a man in the Perking Opera emits a seriesof short bark-like screeches. "But performing isreally what I love to do. A lot of time when youget caught up won't know what's going on you'rejust doing it. That's the best part aboutperforming--the more you can separate yourselffrom thinking about what you're doing and just becompletely doing...
...version, old Bret (or was it Bart?) Maverick himself, James Garner. This week a live-action take on The Flintstones debuts, with John Goodman and Elizabeth Perkins as Fred and Wilma Flintstone and Rick Moranis and Rosie O'Donnell as Barney and Betty Rubble. Later this summer, Lassie will bark her way back into your heart, and Wyatt Earp will gallop across the wide screen. The Little Rascals, based on the old movie shorts that have become continually rerun TV artifacts, arrives in August. Then summer's end brings It's Pat, a Saturday Night Live spin...
Sometimes virtues look better in retrospect. Antony died at a moment (30 B.C.) when Romans were already bitterly nostalgic for the austere virtues of the old republic. Antony represented a transition: he could live on bark and roots with his men when retreating out of the Alps before Lepidus (the old Roman virtues); and then he would anticipate the later empire by collapsing into a feckless boozehound (the new style). Anyway, Rome's embrace -- like America's now -- had grown vast and "multicultural." The republic's old purity of spirit had dissolved. Diversity overwhelmed simplicity. Quite apart from multiculturalism...
...dwindling their numbers, who know what they think and are willing to say it. Even if they risk strange accusations and false comparisons. As I end my year as Crimson Editorial Chair, I have just one piece of advice for this small few. As Jay Leno might put it, bark all you want; they'll think more...