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...Kaufman pointed out, speaking of Broadway, the savage moralizing of satire is what closes at the end of one week; sitcoms must go on week after week. Acknowledging this, Yorkin and Lear are entertainers who brandish the weapons of satire but use them sparingly. Their Bunkers and Sanfords are sheep in wolves' clothing ? domesticated in every sense from a tougher breed of British precursors...
George and Laura Bush finally sat down last week with the dark sheep of the political family: they had the McCains over for dinner. The couples discussed the challenges of rearing kids and providing national health care; no one got hurt. If the pre-Jeffords White House ignored McCain, the new McStrategy seems cribbed from Death of a Salesman: Attention must be paid. Deputy chief of staff Josh Bolten scuttled over to McCain's Senate office last week to talk about HMO reform, with Health Secretary Tommy Thompson in tow. This week Budget Director Mitch Daniels will woo McCain...
...always had my own ideas about things. As an only child, when my dad went to check on his farm in Ohio, I had nothing to do, so I imagined things. I stood in the barn and sang opera to the sheep. I made up all sorts of languages. I guess someone looking on might have predicted I would grow up to be funny. As a teenager, I spent three years training in classical piano until I realized I didn't have the talent to pursue music professionally. Then I wanted to become a stenographer so I could count...
Miro Cohen stayed up all night searching for two missing 14-year-olds. The sheep farmer who doubles as security officer for the small West Bank settlement of Tekoa figured Yossi Ishran and Kobi Mendel had just gotten lost as they hiked through the desert. Then, at 5:30 a.m., his walkie-talkie crackled with terrible news: the boys had been found dead. "Were they shot or stabbed?" Cohen asked. The caller hesitated. "It's worse than that," he said. "Come and see, Miro...
Even when he is writing about relatively fantastic subjects, like spirit possession in sheep, Murakami's sensibility is that of the skeptical realist. His narrator is inevitably everyman, contemporary Tokyo edition - a thirtyish urban male in a low-key, white-collar job, a somewhat passive fellow who doesn't expect much out of life and takes what comes with jaded equanimity. Like the narrators of Raymond Carver's stories - Murakami is Carver's translator - they are unremarkable men, less driven by the ethic to succeed and less enmeshed in the powerful webs of family and business and community than most...