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...hours after I saw a documentary on snakes. That was the beginning of the end of TV for me. For six years my dad would rig the set with booby traps so he could tell if I snuck TV time while they were out to dinner. But I sneaked anyway. When baby-sitters would inevitably fall asleep, I'd sneak downstairs and watch Science Fiction Theater and other taboo shows with the sound on very low. My folks were also prudent about the movies I could see. They had taken me to see Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs when...
...work did not have to be interrupted by raids. So the workers drew lots once a week to pick the five who would have to be shipped back to the Mexican border. Before the five victims left, though, the hat was passed for funds to help the unlucky five sneak back north across the border, a trip that usually started the next...
OPENING NIGHT FOR A dance show featuring 80 Cambridge school children was crazy enough without proud parents trying to work their way into Sanders Theater to catch a sneak preview. As the children practiced dance routines on stage with Harvard undergrads, one rosy-checked man managed to slip past my careful eye and quietly poked his head inside...
...celebration, with Dylan hanging back from all the good-fellowship. Everyone is used to seeing Dylan as the selfexiled iconoclast, the hipster assassin, lurking darkly and waiting to wound. But here he seems different, like an expatriate who is not sure whether to travel on his own passport or sneak back into the country. He frets openly about performing his short solo. He needs coaching; he needs confidence. And when he brings it off, finally -- and beautifully -- he gets a hug from Producer Quincy Jones. Dylan's face breaks into a wide smile, grateful, relieved and unguarded. That session could...
...Empire Burlesque, Dylan is in fine dramatic form: wrenching on ballads like I'll Remember You, furious on Seeing the Real You at Last and spooky on When the Night Comes Falling from the Sky, one of those pacesetter Dylan songs in which romantic anguish kaleidoscopes into a sneak preview of Armageddon. The writing in the album is near peak. Tight Connection to My Heart is a playful bit of lovelorn apocrypha, a mood, once established, that turns sinister toward the end of the record, with the ominous Something's Burning, Baby. The last song, Dark Eyes, is like...