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...like “Lost Cause.” As serious as he seemed at times, Beck was in top form during the most rollicking and silly tracks, like “Nicotine and Gravy,” the harmonica hoedown of “One Foot in the Grave,” and even the dusty “Loser.” “Pick yourself up off the side of the road!” he rapped at the start of “Where It’s At”—perhaps...
...begins, "The impracticality of Utopian qualities as they exist in the movie Big Daddy is a decidedly obvious deduction...[Big Daddy] speaks to the grave deficit in man's quest to define human happiness." It goes on for 12 more pages, using some mighty fancy words to describe the cultural resonance of Sandler's 1999 hit, in which he befriends a little boy and shows the kid how to urinate against a wall...
...don’t second-guess my intentions. I’ll return to Vietnam and speak with those children, with the market-goers who knew my family before they were mine, and wade through fields of grass toward Ông Ngoai’s grave. I’ll stare at his picture through scented smoke. He’ll look back with his triangular face. I’ll see my mother, and the three of us will finally speak the same language...
After making offerings at Ông Ngoai’s grave and battling through torrential rain, I traveled back with my family to their home in downtown Saigon. When Ma was seven her family moved into the city so the children could find jobs. My mother carried buckets of water, hanging from a long stick crossing her shoulders, from the city well to people’s houses; the lack of indoor plumbing at that time assured her of employment. Suzanne and I wandered through the market surrounding our family’s home, trying to envision...
...accent grave can make pronunciation a little tricky, leading some members to occasionally say SAH-BLEE-AY. “I don’t want to pronounce the ‘r,’” Chavez jokes. “I think it would sound better without...