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...Dir. Chris Milk Gnarls Barkley has traded cool for creepy with the video for their Violent Femmes cover, “Gone Daddy Gone.” Rather than another eerily addictive dreamscape like the Rorschach-inspired “Crazy,” we get an itchy and uncomfortable two-and-a-half minutes of “A Bug’s Life” on Viagra...
...Dir. Sam Brown James Blunt’s latest video is the sort of melodramatic, post-bad break-up story that would be expected from everyone’s favorite sensitive singer-songwriter. We find Blunt dejected once again, sitting in an empty hotel bedroom reflecting on his past relationship...
...took that long?" This was a script built for laughs, not to last. It's less a Petronian satire than a Catskills burlesque, reveling in fake French ("Garcon, s'il vous plait, / Encore, Chevrolet coupe") and real Yiddish, as when French soldiers sing, "A vous toot dir veh, a vous?" and the nine Supreme Court justices declare, "We're the A.K.'s / Who give the O.K.'s" - A.K.'s meaning alterkockers. (For this lore I thank Alan Abrams, Time's Broadway-musical scholar in residence, who played Wintergreen in summer stock a few years back...
...their feet, to problem solve and to engage socially." She also feels that the ABA emphasis on "looking normal" doesn't address the reasons for behaviors like flapping and rocking: "Those are organizing strategies to cope with anxiety. Our philosophy is not to say 'Don't do that.' In DIR, we respect them for who they are but give them the tools they need for successful lives." Sometimes literally: Osgood tosses a boy a Koosh ball when he asks for something to fiddle with in his hand. Knowing to ask, she says, is part of learning to regulate oneself...
...results, his critics say there's an absence of controlled, randomized studies. He is responding with a series of studies just getting under way at York University in Toronto. Among them is work that should help illuminate choices for struggling parents: imaging studies that will compare the brains of DIR kids with those treated with...