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...else. But small children still love it. That's because the Mayzie vs. Horton dustup affirms what they already know: real parents are people who are dedicated and unshakably there for you, day in and day out. Period. In their limited world view, the parent-child connection is not spun from DNA. Rather, it's woven with the mundane strands of everyday life, the countless gestures, large and small, that repeatedly reaffirm: I see you, I love you; I am yours, you are mine...
...Snoop, he is undoubtedly a charismatic performer. His rapping style has a casual intensity, and he describes scenes of street life with a cool offhandedness, building the tension in his songs in long, lean lines of lyrics, spun out in his Southern drawl. He may be a gangsta, he may have a controversial past, but there is something likable about him, almost fuzzy, sort of cartoon-like, definitely marketable...
Some may find this too much of a mystification, but for those who surrender to the spell, Ricci has spun out a delicate and soulful novel, tiptoeing around silences and respecting those secrets that are guessed at, as well as those that are best left untouched...
...often one has the chance to sit in a room and be spun by not just one, not just two, but three masters of the promotional arts. Then again, it isn't every day that a major "new media venture" is announced. Well, actually, it is every day that a major new media venture is announced, or so it seems anyway...
...lusciously cynical switch, the amendments that various G.O.P. Senators had tacked on to make the bill more palatable now made it easier to deride as a huge, mangled monument to Big Government. And so Lott spun in place and called for a vote on whether to let the bill come to the floor, knowing full well that McCain did not have the 60 votes he would need. And with that, any chance of passing a comprehensive bill died, stalling the engine that was meant to power the last two years of the Clinton presidency...