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...about a story's "spin" and come back to wonder whether there is, in fact, a story to tell. After all, even though we, the television audience, know it's ridiculous for Ally McBeal to keep hearing secrets in the law firm's bathroom, we still forgive it, for sake of unfolding the plot. Heck, it is TV, and she has to find out somehow--why not in the bathroom? At this moment, the public is more disgusted by the media's insistence on publishing every sordid detail and the viciousness with which they pounced on this story than...
...native Alabamian, I am particularly concerned that our natural areas be recognized for their full value and protected from chip mills for the sake of future generations," he wrote in a letter soliciting signatures...
...composed of crystalline tones: breezy guitars that ring like wind chimes; crisp, jazzy vocals. A few of the songs attack pop radio ("Boring!" she sings). On other numbers Mitchell gets more personal, recounting her mother's disapproval of a live-in boyfriend. Mitchell's reply: "For God's sake!/I'm middle-aged, Mama." And on the album's best song, Harlem in Havana, Mitchell summons up childhood memories of sneaking off to watch risque carnival sideshows. "Aunt Ruthie would have cried," she sings. "If she knew/We were on the inside...
...indroduction in the book, providing us with a glimpse of the verbal gymnastics that are to come. In the end, Nabokov's novel is largely about the power of language to transform a fundamentally disturbing situation into an exquisite work of art which we can admire for its own sake...
...David Schippers plan to keep their post-vote deliberations under lock and key -- or at least low-key -- until hearings formally begin after the November 3 elections. It's a strategy that speaks volumes; not only is Hyde hoping to keep the messy subject out of sight for the sake of fast-fading bipartisanship -- not to mention the oft-cited Rodino format -- but the GOP is also recognizing that the defection of a mere 31 Democrats Thursday was not exactly the heartiest support they could have wished for. Republicans, too, are uneasy about the Pandora's box they just opened...