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Perhaps it was Youngman's first break, back in the Borscht Belt Catskills of the 1920s, that taught him the virtue of volume. The professed "Milton Berle groupie" was fronting Henny Youngman and the Swanee Syncopaters at the Swan Lake Inn when the club owner, hearing Youngman tell his jokes between songs, decided to save money by firing the band and telling the funnyman to stay...
...holding off big Republican gains in Congress and maybe even in reducing their majorities, the Republicans will have missed their chance to score real political gains off of this scandal. The President, shored up by the voters' demonstration of continued faith in him, will be able to pursue his swan-song agenda in the Brave New World of post-deficit government with added confidence...
Once labeled a potential "kiss of death" by novelist Saul Bellow, after he won the prize in 1976, the Nobel can be a bittersweet distinction. For William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, the prize was a swan song, a tribute to past masterpieces whose greatness their subsequent work did not approach. For others, it's just a very prestigious distraction. Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska, the 1996 laureate, complained that the prize destroyed her cherished privacy by turning her into an "official person." According to Jonathan Galassi, editor in chief of Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Gordimer's and Walcott's publisher...
...legend, aging but still creative as ever, perform in an intimate setting. As Dylan, a Stratocaster slung over his shoulder, launched into his classic, "Maggie's Farm," the thick, biting sound of the band immediately announced to the audience that this concert was not going to be a swan song for an artist past his prime, no nostalgia trip for those wishing to rekindle fond memories of the 60s. Much of the audience knew the songs by heart and cheered wildly when they recognized them, and each rendition stood...
...Show, not just by Emily Skinner and Alice Ripley, joined at the hip as Daisy and Violet, but by composer Henry Krieger (Dreamgirls) and director-choreographer Robert Longbottom (Christmas shows for the Rockettes). The show percolates best in a couple of brisk, ersatz-vaudeville numbers (one features dancing Egyptians, swan-shaped harps and a crocodile) and in a soul-inflected showstopper, The Devil You Know. And there's at least one anthem-like ballad, Who Will Love Me As I Am? that should have Whitney Houston on the phone to her agent...