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Mike recalls the painful way he was given the news. "They had a pretty crude way of telling me. They said, 'They've got one body and two heads.'" Patty, still under sedation, heard the word Siamese and couldn't quite grasp it. "I had cats?" she asked...
...music, what Allen lacks in in clarinet technique he makes up in sheer energy and passion. He goes for what he calls a "crude" sound, based on the styles of New Orleans legends like George Lewis, Albert Burbank and Sidney Bechet. Give him an A for authenticity. Few players today can boast such a powerful tone. That's due partly to his use of an extremely hard reed (Rico No. 5, about one step down from a roof shingle) and partly to his penchant for the now obsolete Albert system of keys and fingerings, favored by all the old-timers...
...colored substance are some of the most ancient examples of certain species known to science. The oldest ants, moths, stingless bees, caterpillars, termites, mushrooms and pollen grains, some of them dating back tens of millions of years, have been found in amber. And unlike ordinary fossils, which are relatively crude rock molds of prehistoric life forms, these specimens are often perfectly preserved, with the most delicate features intact...
...such as Senator Phil Gramm and television commentator Patrick Buchanan also emphasize their support for a flat tax, Forbes seems to be the candidate most associated with tax reform. Forbes actually speaks of little else than the alleged merits of a flat tax. His message is little more than crude economic determinism--he professes that his flat tax will not only boost America's economic stature, but will also encourage a renewal of America's culture and values...
...Earth constricts. We imagine ourselves to be prisoners in solitary confinement, tapping crude coded messages on the dungeon wall and hoping for an answering tap--without which we stare at the queasy possibility that we are truly, absolutely alone. Such an abyss 1) may be infinitely more depressing than the assumption of human inferiority or 2) may argue, conversely, for the divine uniqueness and therefore preciousness of the human enterprise. An agnostic will split the difference and think of Voltaire: "Remember your dignity...