Word: drumsticks
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...year. Disney virtually created, and for a decade has owned, the kidophilic Thanksgiving period with its animated films (The Little Mermaid, Aladdin) and live-action retreads (101 Dalmatians, Flubber). But this year turkey time looks like a family free-for-all, and The Rugrats Movie could grab the golden drumstick...
...Jones' tactic was not deconstruction so much as demolition. His long-touring Musical Depreciation Revue was a frontal assault on sonic propriety. Even his nickname was an action verb, pithily expressing what the man did to music. He drove it into the ground, he impaled it on a drumstick, he laced it with aural rotgut, he deleted it from all genteel associations. He spiked...
...tried eating the things, really I did. I chipped away at a drumstick, pried off a morsel, chewed, and chewed some more. When it got lodged in my throat, I drank some soda to get it down. Big mistake. I expect it will float around in my gastrointestinal tract, chewing gum style, for the next seven years...
...season with a dignified sense of balance. Not the Captain. Balance was supposed to come with middle age, but these days he feels shakier than ever. The season overwhelms him with its polarities. Grand abstractions are undercut by particular forms. The gratitude of Thanksgiving reduced to a half-chewed drumstick. The generosity of Hanukkah and Christmas to Tammy Faye Bakker dolls. The renewal of New Year's to a horn toot...
...variety of historical figures ranging from Moses to Shakespeare, in a routine perceived more as humorous jest than pretension, at least by those from Harvard and Yale. Still, both bands find opportunities for genial sparring. Yale's marchers form a huge drum and carry a fifteen-foot-long drumstick across the field while bemoaning the pitiful size of much of Harvard's equipment. And the Harvard band takes advantage of twentieth century technology by flying a plane over the stadium with a banner reading, "Yale Band Eats Moose...