Word: seuss
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...piano. Winsome, if off-key, her 29 charges launch into "My country 'tis of thee," fading away uncertainly as they reach the line "Land of the Pilgrims' pride." About half the children are native Vietnamese speakers; nine are Hispanic. But the book box holds the Berenstain Bears and Dr. Seuss; cheery posters list the days of the week and the months of the year--in English only. At day's end the lesson is about "contours." With crayons, the children are to outline a picture of an apple. Most comply easily, but six-year-old Tuyen, uncomprehending, gaily colors...
...laggard?" How about IBM Chief Executive Officer Lewis Gerstner? Nationally acclaimed prize-winning author Louise Erdrich? How about former Sen. Paul E. Tsongas (D-Mass.) or Secretary of Labor and former Kennedy School Professor Robert S. Reich? Maybe U.S. News and World Report Economics Editor Susan Dentzer or Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel) are 'drunken laggards.' If not, then surely John Guare, playwright and author of "Six Degrees of Separation" or Tonyaward winning Broadway director Jerry Zaks are looses...
...back, via newly discovered Dr. Seuss manuscript...
...missing from Slant 6 as they are from Helium and Rastro! But the riffs on Soda Pop Rip Off(especially in the second-to-last number, the sparkling "Blue Angel") could pass of Autoclave riffs, and have the same tightly-coiled double-reversal feel that Autoclave songs like "Dr. Seuss" and "Summer" used to have. I think Autoclave may be remembered as the Yardbirds, or the Sneakers, of the 90s indie-pop underground: a short-lived band whose ex-members all, or almost all, go on to do great and disparate thing. of which this first Slant 6 album...
...Dumps with Jack and Guy, by Maurice Sendak (HarperCollins, $20). In the dumps puts matters too mildly. Give or take the late Dr. Seuss, Sendak is by far our most talented artist and writer for children (Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen). His new book is about homeless children, and it matches the world's madness with the bitter fantasies of art. We see a frightening jumble of hungry, half-naked street kids, voracious rats, a huge cat-faced moon. Two white urchins discover a brown boy barely old enough to walk. Jingly verse that recalls...