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...cultivating your garden and dying well, the show is at heart a cheerleader for American diversity. ?A perfect ?Sunday Morning? story? is one with challenges surmounted, often at an advanced age, as correspondent Rita Braver dewily nudges them onward. I?m a sucker for these heartwarmers, but the crank in me sometimes rebels. The syrup?s already on my pancakes, thanks...
With a political statement this pungent, Le Carre knows he runs the risk of alienating his sizable American following, even of coming off as a crank--an aging, forgotten ex-spook railing at the world from his Cornish crag. He also knows that he is leaving behind the sense of moral ambiguity that permeated his most acclaimed novels, trading those many delicate, literary shades of gray for a palette of clear-cut black and white. He has taken a stand. "I have a kind of middle-class constituency of fans who don't want me shaking the bars," he says...
...when it served his purpose to do so. "Rumsfeld's a big-enough maestro to understand that Wolfowitz was the leading edge and that someone had to do it," a Pentagon associate says. "Are there times when it made him uncomfortable? Absolutely. Are there times when he had to crank it back? Yes. But did it work for him? Clearly...
...June 1899 a letter arrived at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. "I am an enthusiast but not a crank," wrote a bicycle-shop owner from Dayton, Ohio. "I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then if possible add my mite to help." The letter was from Wilbur Wright, who, with his brother Orville, wanted to build an airplane. They began with kites and gliders, built their own wind tunnel and even recalculated long-accepted physics equations. Four years later on a blustery North Carolina beach, they succeeded where all others had failed. The longest flight...
...teeming anticipation for full-lengths from !!! and Liars further demonstrates the excitement and buzz for the new school. But none of the bands in this coterie have the range and accessibility that the Rapture flaunt so brilliantly to the masses on Echoes. Other bands might crank out a more memorable anthem than “House of Jealous Lovers” (!!!’s “Me and Giuliani…” comes to mind), but none are likely to make an album as complete, as fresh, and as start-to-finish excellent as Echoes...