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...called musical comedy acts. Just as the Fab Four made humor a crucial part of their appeal, so the Pythons frequently used songs in Flying Circus ("Eric the Half-a-Bee," "The Lumberjack Song," "Dennis Moore") and their films. Idle's blithely idiotic ditty, "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life," helped make Life of Brian that rare Crucifixion movie you could hum your way out of. And the Jones-Palin anthem from The Meaning of Life ("Every sperm is sacred / Every sperm is great / If a sperm is wasted / God gets quite irate") could be choraled today...
...were lower-middle-class oiks," Idle says of himself and most of the other Pythons, noting that only Cleese and Palin had gone to posh public (private) schools. Yet however scraped his circumstances or mean his surroundings, young Eric was not a pouter; he always looked on the bright side of life. And he developed an early facility with language. "I think I was always interested in words because in such a sterile environment you have to create your own entertainment, and explore your own brain.... I was more well read than most teenagers because at boarding school there...
...said. “We got ourselves behind, we looked and we saw that we were going to be in a struggle here, and I think we as coaches panicked on offense and decided to throw the ball, and we played into their hands.”The lone bright spots for Brown in the running game were the two touchdowns scored by senior back Akin Oyalowo. Still, both runs came while the game was out of hand, with Harvard up at least two scores.Even near the end of the game, the Crimson was able to stay aggressive, thanks...
...performance of the Harvard men’s golf team’s freshman was one of the few bright spots in a tough weekend at the McLaughlin tournament, hosted by St. John’s University. The Crimson finished 12th out of 16 competing teams, with Akron taking the number one spot...
...Thirty years ago, as bright young women got great educations and then crashed the workforce rather than just getting married, they were a bellwether of society's changing face. But now that so many drive a Lexus and push an $800 baby stroller, I'm not sure they are still a significant bellwether. They're trendy, but the trend they represent misses the typical American family by a mile...