Word: marxes
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...lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.'s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud." (V.G.); "But whether or not this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough. But by the dozen? This, the quantitative aspect of grading--we are, after all, getting $5 a head for you dolls...
...Marx turned Hegel upside down...
...that." Ah, but there was a calamity at every turn. There was his stubborn insistence that tobacco was not necessarily addictive. There was the premature release of his concession speech on Election Night. And, of course, there was the symbol of his campaign, the Chico--as in California, not Marx--pratfall. On the very same day that Dole landed on his back after crashing through a fence on-stage, he also cited Hideo Nomo's no-hitter for "the Brooklyn Dodgers." It could have been worse. Better to call them the Brooklyn Dodgers than what they were known...
...half is gospel, a genre that should provide Houston with a vocal challenge worthy of her abilities. Streisand's Mirror (Nov. 12) also offers a mix; it's mostly music from the movie score, plus two pallid numbers by Bryan Adams (a duet with Barbra) and Richard Marx, with just one lush solo turn by Streisand. She's too good to be on the same CD, or in the same ZIP code, as Adams and Marx. On Evita (out now), Madonna finds herself a classier singing partner: her film co-star Antonio Banderas. His vocals have a gutsy charisma...
...prophets of doom had been mistaken. Nary a multi-color "click" pen had been thrown, nor any "bell-ringing beef" flung upon the arrival of the randomized sophomore class into the houses. Despite valiant attempts to polarize the situation (e.g. disproportionate gender ratios), the class struggle described in Karl Marx's little-known Harvardesque Manifesto has yet come to pass...