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...Hate to Get Up in the Morning," which Sgt. Berlin performed himself. The notorious night bird took special pleasure in the song?s wryly sociopathic lyrics: "Someday I'm going to murder the bugler;/ Someday they're going to find him dead./I?ll amputate his reveille,/ And stomp upon it heavily,/ And spend the rest of my life...
...will behave like someone who has her own apartment, pays her own bills, holds down a steady job and negotiates the pitfalls of a long-term relationship. We will not dissolve into tears when well-meaning neighbors ask us when are we getting married, already. We will not stomp up the stairs and kick our bedroom door closed if someone questions our take on the plight of Afghan refugees. We will, in short, behave like a real person...
...Yeah, Pete was there. He stayed. But, you know, he's not a lot of fun, Pete. He can dance, sort of, in that stomp-stomp way of his. But that's not much fun. He's looking old, and of course he's off the market...
...getting overshadowed by "The Producers," "Blast" has been totally annihilated. The critics treated this entertaining show, which originated in Indiana and has toured successfully around the country, like a gawky tourist who has wandered into a swank supper club by mistake. One of those new-style music spectacles (think "Stomp!"), "Blast" features a horde of fresh faced kids in their 20s performing an array of choreographed band numbers. It?s a mix of marching-band music, baton twirling, ballet, Ed Sullivan novelty act, Blue Man Group-style performance art and a few other things that escape me at the moment...
...progress in determining what phobias are, what kinds of neurochemical storms they trigger in the brain and for what evolutionary purpose the potential for such psychic squalls was encoded into us in the first place. With this understanding has come a magic bag of treatments: exposure therapy that can stomp out a lifetime phobia in a single six-hour session; virtual-reality programs that can safely simulate the thing the phobic most fears, slowly stripping it of its power to terrorize; new medications that can snuff the brain's phobic spark before it can catch. In the past year...