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...from the center), addressing issues of intellectual orthodoxy. But because so much of this PC-talk has been dominated by the likes of the Dartmouth Review's favorite son, Dinesh D'Souza, many rational people have been reluctant to discuss the legitimate problems, for fear of association with the strangest of bedfellows...
...strangest letter we received was from some kid who sent us--believe it--his wart. At the end of a long, complicated letter which rambled on for two pages, I discovered under a large mound of scotch tape, what was unmistakably a human wart. The mailer's effort, however misguided and anal retentive, was semi-successful. His idea did, that is, make it out of the dead letter box--and right into a medical waste disposal basket...
...held the record for sightings of different species in a single day: 331. With no effort whatsoever, we spotted more than 100 species in the course of five days. A short canoe ride from the Manu Lodge, visitors can see the nesting sites of hoatzins, perhaps the world's strangest birds. The floppy, pheasant-sized avians have three stomachs, like cows; the young defend themselves by diving from their nests into the water. When danger has passed, they use hooks on the leading edge of their wings to climb back up the trees into their dwellings...
According to Ryan, her songs are "an expression of day-to-day life--men, women, roommates, friends, hiking boots, the homeless...Songs just come out at the strangest times--walking to class, during all-nighters." Her musical influences still include Joni Mitchell ("you can't get away from her; she's the folk goddess"), Shawn Colvin and various jazz and gospel performers. But these influences play little more than a subconscious role in Ryan's song-writing process. "I don't try to imitate," she says. "The one time I tried to imitate Haydn for class, the T.F. said...
...production to a conclusion worthy of Oscar Wilde. The outcome is, of course, happy--the Prentices discover that Miss Barclay and Mr. Beckett are their long lost children, and the family is reunited. Chock full of these incestuous twists, this production of What the Butler Saw remains one of strangest yet most cleverly staged plays of the spring...