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...World in Action, selected them to appear in a 40-min. documentary called Seven Up!, directed by Paul Almond. The kids were chosen to represent English classes and regions: Jackie, Lynn and Sue from a London council estate, John, Andrew and Charles from a Kensington boarding school, Paul and Simon (originally spelled Symon) from a charity home, Neil and Peter from a Liverpool suburb, Suzy from a titled family, Nicholas from the Yorkshire dales, rough-and-tumble Tony from the East End, ethereal Bruce from divorced upper-class parents...
...Clearly rooting for the underdog, Seven Up! found its early breakout star (tough Tony) and two of its sentimental favorites (wistful Simon and little-lost-boy Paul) among its lowest-class subjects. The posh lads had their scholastic futures mapped out: their parents had prepped them for Marlborough and Cambridge. But Simon, when asked whether he hoped to go to university, said no: "I'll just walk around, and see what I can find." And poor, dear Paul looked stumped. "What does university mean...
...Emotion Machine By Marvin Minsky '50 Simon & Schuster...
...could immerse yourself in or just as easily ignore. Along the way, of course, he's also been a superstar collaborator and producer, helping create career-high albums for the likes of David Bowie, Talking Heads and U2 right through to the high-gloss finish he applied to Paul Simon's angsty Surprise this year. But here and now Eno doesn't want to talk about music - he visibly slumps at the mention. "It's just not the art around which culture is centered right now," he says. Is there one? "Well, it's still in the process of developing...
...main reason they lost was that England had the better fast bowlers. The worry for Australia is that even without Simon Jones, they still might. McGrath is a champion. He's also 36. Watching him running in to bowl revives memories of an Australian practice at the Sydney Cricket Ground in the late '90s, when two speedsters at opposite ends of their careers were operating in adjacent nets. Veteran Craig McDermott was bustling in as though he had a lead weight strapped to each thigh; a flowing Brett Lee, meanwhile, might have been mistaken for an Olympic sprinter. Though...