Word: dentists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...great tradition of reading pamphlets, so that every citizen could benefit from Sedaris' uncanny insight into our times. Those weird, brilliant little vignettes should be sold separately at 25 cents a pop at check-out counters and newsstands, to be read on coffee bread, or the subway, in the dentist's office. Like confetti, Sedaris' bizarre creations would litter the mean streets of our cities. Several of these stories would be at least as popular as was common Sense in its day, and we would all be better...
That is unlikely to happen without a terrible fight. The chief reason: N.A.A.C.P. chairman of the board William Gibson, a South Carolina dentist who handpicked Chavis for the job. Gibson, according to an N.A.A.C.P. insider, "has stacked every important committee with his own supporters." In the past, his tightly controlled faction has fended off requests from other board members about the organization's finances, programs and directors. Critics have been branded as "traitors and Uncle Toms" by Gibson and Chavis. "I'd be very surprised if there were an emergency board meeting called over this issue," says an N.A.A.C.P. source...
...story began with the retired Army Colonel falling asleep under the nitrous oxide he is given at a visit to the dentist. He then dreams a rather Tolkein/C.S. Lewis-esque adventure that takes place in the land of "Gamehenge." Explaining the storyline between each song, Anastasio led the band through "The Lizards," "Tela," "Wilson," AC/DC Bag," "Colonel Forbin's Ascent," "The Famous Mockingbird," "The Sloth," "McGrupp and the Watchful Horsemasters" and the set, with an invigorating performance of "Divided Sky," a compositional masterpiece centered around the ritual chant of the natives of Gamehenge...
...course, like the trip to the dentist's office and the bedheads of all those football players at morning practices this spring, it wasn't always pretty...
Because while a visit to the dentist can be a gateway to new vistas, it wouldn't be if it weren't such a pain...