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...took the plunge and bought the whole album, or were given it (or downloaded it if you’re too hip to pay for music these days), and curled up in the shade of your wilting Christmas tree to have a good listen, you might discover an album with an entirely different slant. Beginning with “Visions of Paradise,” Jagger undertakes the previously unimaginable task of coming to terms with the fact that he is possibly the only man alive over the age of 50 who is still allowed to wear denim jeans...
...humor. For instance, a very funny sketch on the Dec. 1 episode of “Saturday Night Live” showed Will Ferrell stumping for a book about how to train your house pet using sarcasm: “That’s a good dog, that fecal shade of brown really goes perfectly with my beige ottoman. Good doggie.” In a recent review session, a professor reminded students that the final exam would be closed-book and that “you can only bring in what you can fit on your wrist...
...Palo Alto need a coach now, too, since Willingham left for South Bend. This might be the best fit of all for Murphy. Seeing as Stanford’s nickname is the Cardinal (the color, not the bird), Murphy’s experience guiding a team named for a shade of vermilion would likely also weigh heavily in the minds of the selection committee...
...kissing it, before bringing him towards us. It was Rais the Baghran, the man much of the world believes spirited Mullah Omar to safety. He stopped a few paces short of me and cased me out, looking up and down with a careful eye. I put his age a shade over fifty, but athleticism still oozed from him. For a "white-bearded old man", whose beard is still thick and black with streaks of grey a meagre concession to age, he looked as though he could stride on to a battlefield tomorrow...
Garth Brooks has a fine voice, though it's a shade too polished to be called distinctively great. His songbook is thick with quality ballads and rockers. But other than Friends in Low Places, a 1990 song that brilliantly melded the mischief of country with the simplicity of pop, Brooks has never produced a track with crossover appeal. What he has done, quite purposefully, is sell an astonishing 101 million records--and sales figures, more than anything, are how he has come to be defined. To the guardians of traditional country, the figures are license to write off Brooks...