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...Melville into this eloquent rant: "Two infatuate trains ran pell-mell into each other, and climbed and clawed each other's backs; and one locomotive was found fairly shelled, like a chick, inside of a passenger car in the antagonist train; and near a score of noble hearts, a bride and her groom, and an innocent little infant, were all disembarked into the grim hulk of Charon...Yet what's the use of complaining?... Don't the heavens themselves ordain these things...
Then last week I went to a perfectly legal heterosexual Jewish wedding in Chicago, and at the end of the ceremony both bride and groom stomped on glasses. Apparently, that's done a lot these days, in the same spirit as having both parents walk down the aisle with the bride. I had simply been behind the times...
...Ensenada (MCA). Listen for the testimony and you may be persuaded that the whole marriage was fieldwork, research under fire for an album of wily recrimination. In the acerbic Christmas Morning the singer describes three genial lies--"Have a great day," "Peace and goodwill to men" and a bride's vow to take her man for better or worse--and plaintively asks, "But hey, what did you mean by that?/ Perhaps I'm the tool you take me for,/ Not anything more." In the faux-perky, hit-bound I Can't Love You Anymore, Lovett travels a Georgia road (that...
...featuring maritime signal flags. Blanchard's joke: "She said the flags meant, 'I love you.' They really said, 'Permission granted to lay alongside.'" Then Blanchard offered one about his old buddy, Captain Patrick Stillman, the commandant of cadets. On Stillman's wedding night, Blanchard said, the captain told his bride she could do anything she wanted. "So she immediately went to sleep," he said. Finally there was the one about the cadet who wondered why his fiance was wolfing down a costly meal at a fancy restaurant when she never ate like that at home. "She replied," Blanchard said, "that...
...earnings from his cafe. He is affiliated with Belgrade's biggest soccer club and appears at film premieres, in expensive restaurants, on TV talk shows. In an elaborate 1995 ceremony, where he dressed up as a royalist Serb officer, he took as his third bride the country's most popular folk singer...