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...savvy than his peers. Yet Karr was a sloppy liar, says Myhan. His tales and explanations were often so inconsistent that Myhan eventually stopped believing much of what he said. Myhan says he once told her, for instance, that he couldn?t go to the infirmary when he was sick because he could not afford insurance. Yet he tooled around in a Porsche. He would say he lived one place one day, and claim he lived elsewhere on the next. "I would not be surprised if his confession is just another one of his stories," says Myhan...
...Naturopathy says that sick animals have an instinctual knowledge of what plants to eat to make them better. Is this true? I have seen dogs eat grass and vomit. There was no package insert to warn them!) Perhaps it was only the bunnies and deer with irregular heartbeats that ate all that foxglove in my wife's garden but again, I doubt it. It's confusing, but this I know: when they're really sick, the naturopaths, the homeopaths, the osteopaths, chiropractors and acupuncturists - they all come to us. Even my dog slouches over and puts his head...
Duke University coach Mike Krzyzewski (pronounced "Sha-shef-skee"), who over the last three decades has won a sick 78% of his games and three national championships, fancies himself a business guru. Why not? Coach K - his more familiar, and spellable, moniker - is a highly sought speaker on the corporate lecture circuit. So before his first day of practice as the new coach of the U.S. national team, this CEO in charge of a daunting turnaround project to restore America's basketball and sporting pride felt a pang that belies his outward cool, but is familiar to even the best...
...parts: Sid Caesar's, Carl Reiner's, Howie Morris' and Imogene Coca's. He wasn't a great mimic ? all the voices had his nasal Long Island timbre ? but he was a confident actor. And since each routine tended to evolve as he performed it, Lenny was less a sick comic than a Method...
...albums ? Interviews for Our Time and The Sick Humor of Lenny Bruce ? and Lenny, with a hipster snap of his fingers, quickly became my first stand-up crush. I was hooked by the humor, its breadth and pungency, even if I didn't always pick up on the references. Sure, I knew that Orval Faubus was Arkansas' segregationist governor, and I laughed when Lenny had him ignorantly approving of his daughter's engagement to Harry Belafonte ("Nice Italian boy, eh?"), but the allusions to 30s movies and the talent agency MCA sailed over my head. That didn't matter...