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...majesty slept. So too today: David gets to be an alternative British royal - so much more attractive and talented and lovable than the real ones, with none of the public-schooled, tight-voweled fustiness. And we get to watch him sleep. No one lasts the full 67 minutes. They meander in, stay five minutes or 20, then meander out again, perhaps because they do not wish to seem foolish or infatuated enough to stick around for the best part of an afternoon. There are no gasps from the crowd as he rearranges his arms, no ripples of delight...
Right on its heels, “Alpha Beta Gaga,” which on Talkie Walkie is a whimsical, whistling meander, became a driving, raving onslaught, riding on a crunching, insistent bass line that Bill Wyman would not have disowned...
...current, are now mainstream. The traditional Western reaction to bank loss used to be riprapping--fortifying the banks with chunks of broken concrete or the bodies of junked cars. Rosgen saw that as absurd and destructive. Instead, he studies the geological features of the streambed to determine its ideal "meander geometry"--the way the stream should flow--thus preventing sediment buildup that could block the channel or erode the banks. He then uses natural materials to give the river a kind of eco-makeover. "I try to copy what works in nature," he says...
...section takes about an hour) is to Easter: definitive TV entertainment for a holiday, or holy day. Lusciously pictorial, elaborating on the Gospel narrative while tightroping above controversy, the film is the fullest standard text from which more extravagant versions like Pasolini's and Gibson's are encouraged to meander freely...
...which reminds me - if you?ll allow an aging mind to meander toward today?s subject - of a feature that aired on ?CBS Sunday Morning? last July 6. Correspondent Martha Teichner, who bought a home on Seabrook Island, S.C., because of its porch, interviewed Michael Dolan, author of ?The American Porch: An Informal History of an Informal Place,? and accompanied him on visits to a number of Southern homes. The gentry still have front porches (some skirting three sides of the house), still sit out there and gas, keeping alive the oral-communal tradition. We learn that the porch...