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...what you want about the glories of growing old--the gaining of wisdom, the drooling of grandbabies, the half-off tickets to matinees of The Bucket List. When it comes to the physical manifestations of advanced years, though, there ain't no euphemizing the indignities. Knees go. Teeth crumble. Ear hairs sprout. Or as Charla Krupp, author of the new best seller How Not to Look Old, puts it, "Aging sucks...
...Some Marfans have devised creative ways to fight the corridor. Gary Oliver, 60, a political cartoonist for the local newspaper, has composed a protest song on his accordion. "Move to Marfa for the peaceful life,/ So far away from the stress and strife," he sings. "Then you put your ear down on the highway floor,/ Hear the many trucks in the distance roar ... La Entrada, here come a lot of highway blues...
...logic by planting too-linear sequences of thought in Day’s brain.Virtually flawless, however, is Kennedy’s rich language and the even richer character who takes life from it. Kennedy writes like a smoother T.C. Boyle, her Britishisms landing softer on the ear than the American slang Boyle bandies about. She has his wit, his lyrical vision, and his ability to slice keenly with language, to be precise and poignant. But her sentences haunt and linger longer than her American counterpart, particularly when she fearlessly confronts Day’s disillusion: “Alfred supposed...
...individuality and grants her subjects intimacy and dignity. The effect is akin to reading a neighbor’s home-printed Christmas letter that’s sprinkled with updates on 10-year-old Sammy’s Little League triumphs. Luckily, Faust has a good ear for picking just the right words. One teenager, “Nannie Haskins of Tennessee,” takes offense when told her black mourning dress becomes her. “‘Becomes me fiddlestick,’” Faust quotes Haskins as writing...
...Like why does Timbaland insist on going shirtless for so much of the video? And what, exactly, is this target that’s being secured? In end, the clip’s most valuable asset is its sheer randomness. Shots of Tim whispering into Nicole’s ear are intercut with shots of car hoods and the girls who dance around them, while Timbaland simultaneously dons a bulletproof vest. One could argue that the nonsensicality of these directorial decisions is in line with the nonsensicality of the song’s lyrics. These include...