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...performance of the National Anthem by the Dartmouth Band was a stirring rendition with all the finest instruments...namely a guy wailing on a huge Poland Springs water cooler with a mallet...
...sentiment. The scriptwriter, Dalton Trumbo (who actually was a communist), went to jail for refusing to testify and then spent years on the Hollywood blacklist, unable to get work. But "share and share alike" has been rehabilitated and restored to its place of honor as one of America's finest bromides...
...life. And it is this point which perhaps deserves most attention—that the best of these channelers really do bring the spirit of the songs they choose to the attention of the listener. The very nature of the genre dictates that the finest artists will inevitably be those that showcase or amplify the best in every song they use by making them as accessible as possible.In the end, this kind of DJing is as much an act of trying to please or excite whomever is listening as it is a documentation of where...
...days before the great election of 2008, your nation's capital was consumed by a single question: If Barack Obama wins, what's in it for me? A week before the balloting, I sat in the dining room of one of Washington's finest hotels and, eavesdropping madly, realized that my neighbors at every one of the adjoining tables were consumed by the vagaries of appointive politics - as I was, after my guest arrived. The game of turbocharged, Cabinet-level musical chairs is the autumnal version of the summer speculation about vice-presidential picks: lots of fun, but not very...
...Byzantine Empire - which for more than 1,000 years stretched from its capital (now called Istanbul) into the eastern Mediterranean, Russia, the Middle East and beyond - continue to dazzle. Running through March 2009, a major exhibit at London's Royal Academy of Arts showcases some of the era's finest works. Yet it also attempts to peel back the artifice that has long made the Byzantine Empire so obscure, and to show that beneath the splendor existed a culture with obsessions, ambitions and insecurities not so different from...