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During his leave of absence, Glenshaw will work for Kimble House, a business that markets the work of Glenshaw's father, Warren Kimble, a Vermont folk artist. Glenshaw will advise the firm on business strategy...
...During his leave of absence, Glenshaw will work for Kimble House, a business that markets the work of Glenshaw's father, Warren Kimble, a Vermont folk artist. Glenshaw will advise the firm on business strategy...
...place from which to grow. Snakefarm's Songs from My Funeral is not an instant hit but is promising. The lyrics are repetitive and the music rarely has any build. The combination of techno and hip hop bass sounds and weak, yearning vocals create an odd combination of folk and pop that, although successful at moments, mostly put a listener to sleep. The inability to commit to one genre even within each song leaves the listener feeling unbalanced and bored. Songs from My Funeral works well as chilled background music, but because of the lack of variety in remix styles...
...think in the bulky, arcane dialect of the law. A doctor I know has noticed, for example, that when she asks a new patient, "Do you have any allergies?" she frequently gets the response, "Not to the best of my knowledge." I suspect this is a kind of folk formality: people think the legalistic phrasing drapes their talk in a cape of gravity. And in the past year references to "perjury," "suborning of perjury," "lying under oath" and "obstruction of justice" have entered our conversations as if we were all first-year law students...
East-coast intellectuals, like Appalachian mountain folk, are famous for their feuds. When Whittaker Chambers accused Alger Hiss of being a Soviet spy in the 1950s, the political elite chose sides, and some still aren't speaking. After novelist Mary McCarthy called playwright Lillian Hellman a liar--or, more precisely, said, "Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'"--the literary crowd split in two. They're at it again. That rumbling out of Washington is the sound of a new chattering class feud--and unaligned wordsmiths had better head for the hills...