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Understand: MacNeil/Lehrer is indeed splendid; Ken Burns should be funded in perpetuity; documentaries sympathetic to black homosexuals and skeptical of Republicans are just fine by me. I have raised money for the A.C.L.U., call myself a Unitarian and give dollar bills to almost every bum who asks; I have standing to question just how essential PBS is these days...
...these and other pages. If it goes up we will have to listen to years of astronaut hyperbole about the joys of drawing blood from each other in orbit. The space station has stunk up the joint long enough. Let the Russians in, or stand aside and let the bum fall...
...China's leading paleontologist, Dong Zhiming, believes some meat eaters too may have been caring parents. In fact, he takes the contrarian view that Oviraptor, a toothless predator whose very name means egg stealer, is the victim of a bum rap. The sharp-clawed creature has been found in close proximity to nests not because it was poised to devour unhatched babies but because "it was the mother and was protecting them," says Dong...
That's courage of a kind. On her new album she explores its isotope: the courage to throw the bum out. On Take It Back, a song that rocks like the house band in a sports bar, she tells off a man with a cheatin' heart: "Tonight laying on the street/ Babe, your bag is packed...
...last years as well. Producer Phil Schaap has included 1 1/2 hours of newly discovered material, rehearsals in 1955 where Lady Day runs through some tunes, runs over a little history ("Jesus Christ. Man broke my heart and I needed the loot"), runs down some collaborators ("The dirty bum," she says of her producer, Norman Granz. "I hate that son of a bitch") and in general gives a strong account of the spirit that kept her vital even as her body was giving...