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...Impossible" by singing "It's impossible/To stick an airplane up your nose/Yes, it's impossible") was wild and crazy. Few comics did Steve Allen impressions; his demeanor was too straight, too assured, abnormally normal. He needed glasses, so, what the heck, he wore glasses. They became not just his trademark but, on the covers of many books and albums, his logo. They suggested the high school teacher aura he projected, the hidden pedagogue who unmasked himself in his more didactic later years...
Though the loss of Kevin Karlander will hurt the rebounding team, the hard-working trio of Jim Gernander, Ryan Miller, and John Longo is sure to pick up the slack. And captain Andreas Moborg will use his trademark hard-nosed play to make up for lost time and reestablish his team as a formidable foe in the league. While the Catamounts are sure to be excited to be back on the schedule, their euphoria can only take them...
...bands out there to fill the middle ground. The Foo Fighters, under the direction of Dave Grohl, have managed to update their sound in tune with the times on each of their three releases. Their most recent album, There is Nothing Left to Lose, was a fusion of their trademark four-chord power punk with plaintive melodies and actual singing. "This is the album of which I am most proud," says Grohl. "It was turning 30 which did it. When you've been listening to punk and death metal since you were 13, you hit 30 and figure it might...
...popular phrases such as "the right stuff" and "good ol' boy," and written an enormous amount of insightful and controversial material covering everything from American architecture to rocket pilots. His last big production, the 1998 A Man In Full, landed him on the cover of Time magazine in his trademark dandy white suit. There was an 11-year wait between Wolfe's last two books, but two short years later he's back again with Hooking Up, a sometimes random collection of writing commenting on the state of affairs in American thought and habit today...
...Prodigal Summer there is, despite the relaxed tone, Kingsolver's by now trademark didacticism. She does not subscribe to the view that novelists with a message ought to send a telegram. It can be no accident that three of the four main characters in the novel have worked as teachers in the past and aren't at all shy about giving lectures...