Word: self
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...constant comparison of this trio with the Bill Evans trio by critics has been a thorn in my side," frets the young jazz pianist Brad Mehldau, in quite possibly one of the most erudite and sincerely self-promotional set of liner notes in recent memory. The biographical hearsay and pseudo-legend that has plagued Mehldau throughout the years is certainly not the worse of fates, but let's give him a break... this is a man on a mission...
...these cartoons attempt to make legitimate social commentary! The Beckers, for example, a parody of the '50s ideal of the suburban family, addresses the important and apparently relevant issue of teenage cannibalism. My other favorite, No Neck Joe, is not quite so high-brow. The title is pretty self-explanatory. The main character is a little human with no neck and the whole of the plot rests of the fact that No Neck Joe has no neck and can't do some of the things his necky friends...
...Hampshire, Berkeley and the rest are right; the intellectual environment is improved when one must contemplate why, in the auto-pilot of self-absorption that is washing and drying hands, we stop in our tracks at the sight of a woman exiting one stall and a man entering the next-why these two Harvard students, equal under the veritas, stand momentarily and wonder at each other. This truly is the meaning of liberal education...
Nevertheless, adherence to CARU regulations remains completely voluntary. Although CARU encourages adherence to its Self-Regulatory Guidelines, it "seeks change through the voluntary cooperation of advertisers," according to the CARU Web site...
Others said they were weary of the governor's self-professed "political incorrectness...