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...California congressman who reportedly kept company with the missing intern will break his silence tonight at 10 p.m. ET on ABC in a live-to-tape, no-restrictions interview with the winner of the "get" sweepstakes, Connie Chung. (A nickel for Dan Rather's thoughts right now.) By Monday, similarly "candid" interviews with Condit will have appeared - at this writing - in national weeklies People and Newsweek, and on local television stations in his home district. Condit has also penned a letter to constituents, which arrived at the Modesto Post Office some time Wednesday afternoon. CNN's Bob Franken...
...substances occasionally. "But you know," he says, "my character, Afroman, he really does." Of course, it's a novelty hit and performance art. Afroman had no idea his ode would be so successful, and he displays an endearing concern for parental sensitivities. "You know what, dude? I made this tape for all my homeboys. I didn't think I'd be talking to TIME magazine. I'm a little worried about Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich. I don't want to get anybody riled up. I just figured, since I'm a pothead, why can't me and the other...
...requested a tape player and read the table of contents, printed in large block letters and underscored with Braille. Looking at the series of tapes before me, I quickly understood that it would take a very long time to listen to the book in its entirety. I would have to content myself with concentrating in detail on sections of it, a method that, as an English major, I have learned works quite well with verbose 19th-century novels. I scanned the table of contents and noted the page numbers and tape volumes of the Picasso section. I pressed play, closed...
...returned to my tapes, and began trying to follow along to the audio instructions. I had already looked at the first pages of the notebook, and knew that there was a page identifying the various raised patterns--cross-hatch, dots, vertical lines. There were symbols to identify the top of the page and the doors in an architectural drawing. The tape directed me to a tactile drawing of one of Picasso’s paintings, and my fingers falteringly followed the audio prompts...
...self-imposed darkness, both hands lightly grazing the drawing, eyebrows drawn in frustration. My fingers weren’t sensitive enough, and my brain wasn’t putting together the jumbled pieces of the image. Finally I rewound the tape and opened my eyes, exhausted, disappointed, and disturbed...