Word: sirius
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Avant-garde German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen liked to say he was born on a planet near the star Sirius, and for fans of his abstract, complex music, it was a plausible theory. He made his name in the 1950s as a pioneer of electronic sound and went on to compose such big, vivid pieces as Light, a 29-hour, seven-part opera that took him 30 years to finish, and Groups, played by three separate orchestral ensembles at once. An influence on musicians from John Lennon to Björk, Stockhausen made news in 2001 for a comment suggesting that...
...Jose, Calif. "I was working my life away, and I just got tired of it," says Ewert, 44. He and his wife Angie, 35, have logged about 13,000 miles (21,000 km) in their 40-ft. (12 m) motor home, which has satellite TV, TiVo, three Internet connections, Sirius radio and a private office space where Ewert works mainly at night, leaving his days free for hanging out with Angie...
...about the one you've got - the new book The Cat Bible: Everything Your Cat Expects You to Know (Gotham) is an excellent place to start. Author Tracie Hotchner is one of the leading experts of the feline world. Her popular radio show, Cat Chat, which airs Wednesdays on Sirius radio, celebrates its first anniversary in November. TIME's Andrea Sachs (who has two cats herself) caught up with Hotchner between broadcasts in Vermont...
...passing out and then being shaken awake, which must happen at least 10 times in Deathly Hallows, to the point where the poor guy comes off as practically narcoleptic. And one more: Must Rowling insist on making evil people short, fat or ugly, or all three? Must, for example, Sirius's death-eating brother Regulus be "smaller, slighter and rather less handsome than Sirius had been"? I know there are exceptions - Tom Riddle was once slitheringly handsome, before he lost his nose - but it's not an appealing trend. Short, fat, ugly people have enough problems without being evil...
...this. Throughout the series Harry has had to confront and forgive an apparently endless series of fathers and father-figures. It's a wise child that truly knows his father, and Harry has had to gain that wisdom again and again. Learning about and accepting James's and Sirius's flaws - their arrogance, their cruelty towards Snape - was a crucial part of growing up for Harry, and in Deathly Hallows he must go through the process again, with a father-figure more important than his actual father, namely Dumbledore himself. It is of critical importance that Harry understand and accept...