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...Kids just sitting around smoking?” Only a handful of the 12 films have any discernible “plot,” but Lockhart’s films transcend this particular convention. The plots tend to be minimal—for example: “Boy waits for bus. Boy gets on bus,” or “Children begin lower down on the hill. Children finish further up on the hill.”The stillness of the films can be eerie at times, but more often evokes a meditative sensibility. Further, Lockhart?...
...were.But Os Mutantes transcended any of that crap. They’re all middle-aged Brazilians who made a revolution in sound forty years ago when they combined Anglo-American psych-rock guitars with distinctly South American tropicalia. They’re too damn happy and wise for pretension.And boy howdy, could they rock a groove.It’s interesting—when they were young bucks in the ’60s, they made a conscious effort to be as wild and new as they possibly could, but now, with age, they seem to have realized that they...
...last year, my father found himself at the center of a grizzly scandal at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s department of pharmacology. The controversy stemmed from a cheating incident that took place at an exam administered in his Pharmacology 331 course—a boy had apparently prepared a crib sheet and had been caught peeking at it during the test. Soon after, my father met with him in his office, listened to his weepy apologies, and examined his cheat sheet. It quickly became clear that the piece of paper could not have helped the boy...
...Well, now he's had one for the 40-plus years of his Python fame. Idle remains the most boyish of the group, with a sense of humor unabashedly adolescent, both pleasing and easy to please. His love of verbal play is so intense it seems like a bright boy's first passion at discovering the worlds in words - the alternate, funhouse universes that language could create. Sometimes that ardor lasts a lifetime; it did for Joyce and Nabokov. Not that Idle is at their rarefied level, but his word-joy was from the beginning, and remains, infectious...
...writing room, he was head boy, and possibly a stern one, in the minds of the two youngest members, Palin and Idle. "In an odd way he always still looks on us as if we're still just junior people coming around," Idle says in the book. "But of course at this age it's good to be four years younger than John." At other times, Python writing sessions sometimes deteriorated into skirmishes between the C's (Cambridge alums Cleese, Chapman and Idle) and the O's (Oxonians Jones and Palin and Occidental College graduate Gilliam). It wasn...