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...brain is composed of two kinds of cells: neurons, or nerve cells, of which there are some 100 billion, and glia, which outnumber the neurons by a ratio of 10 to 1. Neurons, which are the functional units of the brain (glia, scientists believe, are largely "filler"), are connected to each other by means of long filaments, or dendrites, and form the body's nerve network. These cells receive sensory impulses, process the myriad bits of information pouring into the brain each moment, and transmit the brain's messages out to the various parts of the body, causing...
...could never be left playing in the background like a string of Handel concerti grossi or even Bach trio sonatas. It demands closer attention. But the fruits of attention are often sparse (in contrast to the Bach trios!). Beautiful themes are exposed, but then lapse into less-than-profound filler. Huge crescendi too often come from and lead to nowhere. Basically, Victorian music could not cope with the olympian symphonic medium. Although the time of the E-minor's composition, 1866, antedates Brahms and Dvorak, the Sullivan is valuable to us more as a well-crafted curiosity with touches...
...neither food nor supplies from Oak Brook. Restaurants buy their own, mostly through regional cooperatives, though naturally the purchases must meet rigid headquarters specifications. The basic hamburger patty must be a machine-cut, 1.6-oz. chunk of "pure" beef - that is, no lungs, hearts, cereal, soybeans or other filler - with no more than 19% fat content, v. 30% for some competing ham burgers. The 3½-in.-wide bun must have a higher-than-normal sugar content for faster browning...
...book also has quite a lot of filler, particularly in an overlong chronology of the '60s. But throughout there's a healthy sense that music matters even when it seems not to: the CIO may have stopped singing for awhile, but "Which Side Are You On?" helped Boston University's students stop a Marine recruiter only last month. Like fireflies, Seeger says, such songs light up the night...
...prefer instead their own, sometimes psychedelic approaches. Teichmann's book is an "intimate portrait," so he packs a series of topical chapters ("...The Playwright, The Wit, The Cardplayer...") between two very thin slices of reminiscence. While the reminiscences are very good, the stuff in between would be bad filler for the Reader's Digest. In each chapter Teichman sloppily recounts a few Kaufman anecdotes, comes up with a few obvious generalities and sometimes even tacks on a list of short witticisms. The purpose of this approach is understandable; he is trying all along to give an impression of Kaufman...