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...that a number of our great classics were once found objectionable. Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is perhaps the most famous of these. It is likely to be the first we read. And, while many of its aforementioned companions have since been let off the hook, parents and educators have continued to dispute Huckleberry Finn’s appropriateness for elementary and high school curricula. Critics may no longer find it as “trashy and vicious” as the Concord Library Committee so notoriously did (and the New York Times reported...
...between the song’s two parts, Colin sat himself down on the stage and turned his eyes downward to his guitar, strumming one single riff over and over, eventually shifting it around until he came to a new variation, then shifting it even more and incorporating the hook from R.E.M.’s classic “Seven Chinese Brothers.” Then he swirled the section around into a roaring and wholly original climax before rising again to quietly declare the song’s anthemic call to arms: “We?...
...wouldn’t be a good hook up song, it’s a little too fast paced…and it might be about yodeling. They play it in the [Varsity crew] boathouse. The lightweights are into it. I saw that video...[but] why would anyone watch it? It’s nothing but a fat kid dancing to a song...
...another notch in the second half. In the first 90 seconds of the game, senior guard Kevin Rogus drilled a three-pointer, and Cusworth drew a charge on Columbia’s first possession. Then junior forward Matt Stehle went coast-to-coast and finished with a jump hook, and Cusworth blocked a shot from Lions guard Mack Montgomery...
WHEN I READ THE SCRIPT, AND WHEN IT STARTS TO TURN DARK, I WAS THUNDERSTRUCK. I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT WOULD INTEREST PEOPLE. I would have thought so too. Because it does hit you with sort of a left hook. But nobody seemed enthralled with that. Lakeshore Entertainment was always bullish but couldn't afford the whole thing, so as we were talking Warners called back and said it would come in for half of it. And the half was $15 million. In today's market, you know, 15 doesn't buy you a lot, but Lakeshore raised the rest...