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...range of ability and it had its share of notes that can only be described as glorious. All of which can be found, with poorer vocal quality and a contempo-casual cover, on a recording of Night Songs. But Fleming’s personality—her radiant smile, clever winks and coy directions to the audience— is something that can only be experienced live. It’s been correctly argued that one should hear a singer live because the quality of the voice is immeasurably improved; Fleming proved on Friday night that to understand a performer...
...make it better? The latest breach doesn?t surprise people like Richard Gritta, an airline industry expert and business professor at the University of Portland. "At this point," says Gritta, "the system is so full of holes you don?t have to be all that clever to get through. You just have to count on the incompetence of the people who are in charge of security, and based on what we?ve seen, that?s a pretty safe...
...relics on the walls, it casts Jay as the humble performer eager to please his royal audience. This is a delicious setup for the evening, because as dedicated as Jay is to entertaining, he also always appears to savor the fact that he’s a bit more clever than those whom he entertains. It’s not just that he knows how to do something better than anyone else in the room, it’s that he knows he’s carrying on an art form with a rich and oddly noble history...
...Tocqueville, the founder of the genre of American political travelogues, revealed peculiarities both of the American nation and of the democratic system and ideals, Laxer does nothing more than rehash its overworked idiosyncrasies. Foreign literary types, humorists, and historians have worked their way across America before and have produced clever books, such as Andrei Codrescu’s Road Scholar. The wit, however, emanated from those authors’ ability to penetrate into the truly odd, to show how it was also truly American, and finally explain how the bizarre might make sense in a proper American context...
...Tocqueville, the founder of the genre of American political travelogues, revealed peculiarities both of the American nation and of the democratic system and ideals, Laxer does nothing more than rehash its overworked idiosyncrasies. Foreign literary types, humorists and historians have worked their way across America before and have produced clever books, such as Andrei Codrescu’s Road Scholar. The wit, however, emanated from those authors’ ability to penetrate into the truly odd, to show how it was also truly American, and finally explain how the bizarre might make sense in a proper American context...