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...necessary? Teaching the most wrenching social history to the very young assaults their innocence by deliberately disturbing their cozy, rosy view of the world. For what purpose? Is moral complacency among second-graders a growing social problem? They live only once, and for a very short time, in a tooth-fairy world. Why shorten that time further...
Mark Leyner's new Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog is a wacky potpourri of satire that grazes on modern topics from deconstructionism to sperm banks. Tooth Imprints follows Leyner's similarly odd Et Tu, Babe and is jam-packed with random episodes of hysterical weirdness...
...wild evaluation of the '90s, Tooth Imprints on a Corndog meanders along thematic paths through the discontinuous and often confounding amalgam that is contemporary culture. It successfully unites them under a splendidly crafted satirical umbrella, one that would fit perfectly on a beach this week. Photo Courtesy of Harmony Books and Mark Leyner
...grand masters Ron Carter and Tony Williams on bass and drums, respectively. For some reason, the producer of Twenty One, Teo Macero (who produced all of the great Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk albums on Columbia) ,chose to have an incredibly bass-heavy mix, which, coupled with Williams's tooth-rattling cymbal crashes, threatens to drown out the subtleties of Allen's phrasing and unique harmonic conception. It is to Allen's credit that the clarity of her lines and the sharpness of her unceasing string of musical ideas are able to penetrate the intimidating throbbing set up by Carter...
...that the kennel club should follow the lead of its European counterparts by imposing health standards as part of its registration process. Rather than wait for that step, individual- breed clubs are taking their own action. At least three Rottweiler clubs have ruled that dogs missing more than one tooth, which can be a sign of a genetic defect, may not be bred. English springer spaniel owners are encouraging one another not to breed dogs with temperament problems; they want to eliminate what they call the "rage syndrome," a type of brain seizure that makes some dogs lose control...