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...pent-up energy: hands gripped bloodlessly to his text, voice cracking resonantly. He promised a reading in three parts: new, unpublished poems, followed by a few things from the The Breakage, and then two sections from his recently published long poem, “Time’s Fool.” Like all the readings organised by the Woodberry Poetry Room, his performance was recorded, and will join the set of recordings, beginning with Tennyson, which are stored in the Lamont library. The sonorous Oxford intonations and deft formal turns of first lyrics he read seemed to place...
...fool, that is the suddenly ubiquitous MR. T you've spotted in ads for 1-800-COLLECT, Lipton foods and Nick at Nite. "This is my comeback," says T, 48. "I'm here to entertain the people like no one else can. But you have to have a setback in order to have a comeback." T's setback came in 1995, when he was diagnosed with, no kidding, T-cell lymphoma. After initially keeping the disease a secret, the man baptized Lawrence Tureaud decided to confront cancer head on. "I said to myself, 'T, you used to kick...
...swapping service Napster that it has to stop users from trading copyrighted music. The good news: Napster isn't trying all that hard. Software filters are supposed to keep users from posting songs that the record labels have asked Napster to block, but the filters are ridiculously easy to fool. Disguise a song title with an obvious misspelling--say, replacing the word to with the number 2--and the filters won't pick it up. One popular strategy is to post a song with its title translated into pig Latin. Something tells us the folks from Etallicamay aren't going...
...cheerful consumer research notwithstanding, Branson came in third on bbc radio's lighthearted year-end Villain of the Year poll. And in December an unauthorized biography by journalist Tom Bower-which seems to try the fancy trick of painting Branson as both a Machiavellian schemer and a reckless fool-ranked alongside Branson's own autobiography on the Sunday Times business best-seller list. (Branson has sued Bower for libel over a newspaper article...
...latest brother-act pardons of the Clinton Going-Out-of-Business sale--long after Monica--he emerges on 125th Street, larger even than himself. He is the fallen preacher, the three-card-monte dealer, and the best of all time. And he is going to bless and disappoint and fool us again. But what the hell...