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...simplest reply to the last question may be, "Yes. Answer the first...
...common, experts say. Some 15 million Americans suffer from this chronic affliction of the airways that can make the simplest act of breathing laborious and can leave a person suddenly wheezing and gasping for air--especially during hot summer months. The number of Americans diagnosed with asthma has grown alarmingly in the past several years. Since 1990 alone, the number of cases has jumped 50%. Even more alarming, the death rate, which had declined steadily during most of the 1970s, has been rising sharply since 1979. No one knows for sure what is behind the increase, but a prime suspect...
...Zydeco performer, is a superb accordionist who sings in both English and French. A quiet man who habitually sports a big, black cowboy hat, Delafose taught himself to play the accordion at age 13. On his first solo album, French Rockin' Boogie, he shows his ability to take the simplest melody and then, as he puts it, "add the lacing" to turn a foursquare tune into a surging, syncopated dance. "I'm pretty traditional," he says, "but I can step it up when I want...
That was the simplest of the divisions between us, but hardly the only one. My tour in Vietnam had been different from the former captain's. I could not follow him to that extremity of desolation where his memories often led; he was alone there. Nor could the lottery winner follow the conscientious objector to his outpost of remembrance. The more we talked, the farther away we seemed to be. And we weren't even arguing...
...kitsch like "The Brady Bunch" make no pretense of being fine art. They're pure fun, and they know it. But sometimes Hollywood latches on to a story and a cast of quality and breaks their legs with a sledgehammer, one by one, in the name of "accessibility." The simplest verdict is that the screenwriter killed the film...