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...been for his younger sister Molly. When Hofstadter was 12, it became clear that she had grave neurological problems--she never learned to speak or understand language. "I was very interested already in how things in my mind worked," Hofstadter says. (He speaks very gently and deliberately, as if Mr. Rogers had been a super-intelligent rocket scientist instead of a Presbyterian minister.) "When Molly's unfortunate plight became apparent, it all started getting connected to the physical world. It really made you think about the brain and the self, and how the brain determines who the person...
...Laughs.] Head of State is a comedy. It has nothing to do with Barack Obama. Mr. Obama is pretty serious and should be taken seriously. You know, I like him. I like Gore. Hillary too--she's O.K. She can get a job in the Cabinet...
...clear from the beginning that she has a mouth dirtier than Mexican water and an attitude to boot. She’s a living, breathing, rehab-hopping, cussing train wreck who lays it all out there for us, sordid and unashamed. In “Me and Mr. Jones,” a cute bluesy ditty with a horn section and back up singers, Winehouse off-handedly sings, “What kind of fuckery is this? / Nowadays you don’t mean dick to me.” Behind her, a tripartite harmony of voices echoes sweetly...
...husband, desperate women turned “gaunt and pockmarked” whores, heartrending cries from Bedlam.These injustices are of course akin to those described in Blake’s “Songs of Experience” poem “London,” which Jem overhears Mr. Blake reciting: “I wander through each chartered street...And mark in every face I meet / Marks of weakness, marks of woe.”In her prose, Chevalier lyrically captures the prevailing mood of London as a lurid “yellow light from the pub staining...
...authentic voice in prewar blues as well as the originator of the devil-at-the-crossroads legend, stands as a persistent example of the mythological power and primal appeal of the blues, most recently inspiring Eric Clapton’s 2004 tribute album, “Me and Mr. Johnson...