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...portrays Martin's ingenious abilities to pour wine in a glass till the sound of the liquid ceases, and tell by the warmth on his hand whether the leaf he is touching is in the light or the shade...
...Ugly as They Wanna Be also features a driving cover of Black Sabbath's "Sweet Leaf" medleyed with "Funky Fresh County Club," Whitfield Crane's personal tale of jailhouse woes...
After finishing last season at 11-16-2 (its fourth straight losing season), the Elis have turned over a new leaf. Yale Coach Tim Taylor has led his team to an amazing 14-6-2, including a 9-2-3 record in the ECAC which has kept it at the top of the conference all season long...
...manufacture of its opposite myth. European man, once the hero of the conquest of the Americas, now becomes its demon; and the victims, who cannot be brought back to life, are sanctified. On either side of the divide between Euro and native, historians stand ready with tarbrush and gold leaf, and instead of the wicked old stereotypes, we have a whole outfit of equally misleading new ones. Our predecessors made a hero of Christopher Columbus. To Europeans and white Americans in 1892, he was Manifest Destiny in tights, whereas a current PC book like Kirkpatrick Sale's The Conquest...
Most fun are the odd couplings of people and events. Julia Child talks about riding in her family's first automobile, circa 1920. Frank Zappa recalls hiding under the bed during blackouts in World War II. Senator Bill Bradley reveals that he once plucked a leaf from Elvis' Graceland estate while on a Boy Scout trip to Memphis. Dick Clark reminisces about his brother's death at the Battle of the Bulge...