Word: exception
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...Olympics. 'Nuff said. Well, except for one thing--the Super Bowl may still be The #1 U.S. Athletic Event, but the Olympics is giving it a serious run for its money in at least one department. Sure, the athletic performances are good, but the advertising! It's refreshing to know that in an era of reduced arts funding the most creative minds of our time have found another outlet into which they can funnel their talents. It's always curious to notice the way in which mass media has transformed our cultural resources The advertising industry has done just that...
...thinking, the Unabomber, who was a moral train wreck in his own right. The complaint seems a little simple. It can appeal to a flintstone fundamentalism that argues that materialist secular humanism, with its seductive technological wealth and toys and vices, fosters a godless hubris. But no one except Melville's grandfather thinks Flight 800 fell from the sky because its passengers wanted to travel too fast...
...summer of '74, tony-winning sylph Blythe Danner was playing Nina in The Seagull at the Williamstown Theatre in Massachusetts. One day, someone plopped Danner's daughter, who was not yet two, on the stage. "She didn't have anything on except her golden curls," Danner recalls in her famously delectable foggy-froggy voice. "She could barely talk, yet she knew the whole speech better than I did. She just started reciting"--and here Danner does a splendid imitation of a lisping infant declaiming Chekhov--"The men, the lions, the eagles, the part-widges.' That was the beginning. We should...
Levy conducted a series of interviews with his profane and grandiloquent subject (favorite quote: John F. Kennedy was "one of the great [extremely vulgar synonym for ladies' man] of all time. Except for me") until the famously volatile comedian blew up at a semitough question about The Day the Clown Cried, his unfinished 1972 film drama about the Holocaust. (Disclosure: Levy's chapter on the making of The Day the Clown Cried relies heavily--and with due credit--on a magazine article I wrote on the subject for Spy.) Levy certainly doesn't shy away from psychobiography: Lewis' demanding though...
Then the mental stagnation made sense. No one really had much else to do except be hot in a dorm room and be glad senior year, with all its seriousness, hadn't quite arrived...