Word: homers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recounting something he's already seen. But he's making it up on the spot. He'll pitch the whole story, the turns it takes; the jokes are there, and it'll have a sweet ending. Once we started to tell him a Simpsons story line: Homer has to work at the Kwik-E Mart for Apu. Jim goes, 'Oh, great. And Apu will say, "There are only two phrases you have to know, I assure you: 'That is the full-size box of corn flakes' and 'Shoot if you must, I don't know the combination to the safe...
...user can wander backstage and sneak into the freaks' trailers, flip through their photo albums, read their love letters, watch music videos on their TV sets. Animated by Jim Ludtke, Freak Show has an artfully eerie feel. "We didn't want it to be a techie thing," says Homer Flynn, the band's manager. "But we do like being the only CD-ROM with a worm eater...
...institutions (as in "mental') for those with pathologically underdeveloped intellects and overdeveloped egos. How are folks like the cloven-hooved aspiring-deacons of the Williamson County Commission supposed to hold their own against the likes of Apple and its army of Ivy-league lawyer/consultant mercenaries? It's as though Homer Simpson were to take on Gary Kasparov in a chess match. Or to adopt a closer analogy, like the Undergraduate Council attempting to negotiate with concert tour promoters...
...Irish brought a new spirit to American politics, the Germans brought culture in varied forms, from singing groups to vineyards to poetry societies. Some German railway workers could recite Homer in Greek. More pioneering than the Irish, they helped develop America's hinterland, from Ohio to Texas. (In 1900, 1 out of 3 Texans was German in origin.) The town of Hermann, Missouri, still known for its wines, was typical: when laid out in 1837, streets were named for Schiller, Gutenberg, Goethe and Mozart...
Auden's choice of figures from Greek mythology was intentional and appropriate. Perhaps Homer and Sophocles and the rest will prove, when all is said and done, better guides to the human condition than Freud. But he did not shy away from such competition...