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Before that, I was at home during the epic 1960 election campaign between Nixon and Kennedy. I was always a political junkie. On election night I stayed up until 8 o'clock in the morning in my parents' house, watching the election returns with Chet Huntley, David Brinkley, Sander Vanocur and John Chancellor. It was a seminal moment in broadcast journalism. Suddenly, all across America, the political process was actually brought into your living room. These dashing correspondents were able to make a living at this, covering campaigns and traveling the world. I was a pretty good writer and loved...
...seven and a half minutes of crunching guitar and vivid lyrics which culminate in the band chanting “long, dark blues” over a snarling guitar solo. The memorable refrain shows up again in “John Henry Split My Heart,” another epic rocker that ties up the album’s thematic cycle of hardship and loss in a turbulent, changing world...
...takes a certain kind of person to use a cell phone in public—that is, a loud, ballsy and shameless kind of person. I, sadly, possess none of these characteristics. I once listened to a girl on a cell phone at CVS describe, in great detail, her epic quest to purchase the right deodorant. Is this the kind of intimate moment that cell phones allow us to share? I can’t help but feel that people are talking more, but saying less. When I see Cingular’s commercial for their new 5,300-minute...
...Fertile Crescent, the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, was home to the first known systems of writing, irrigation and mathematics. Cuneiform was stamped on clay tablets to record early works of literature, such as the Epic of Gilgamesh...
...modern mix of string instruments and synthesizers, played with intelligence and skill by local Cambridge music group The Empty House Cooperative, conveys a stirring and bleak picture of this musical mini-epic. Repeated cycles of slow, minimal phrases contrasted with sharp, often jilting rhythms give a sense of the shock and unrelenting memories that accompany war veterans...