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Blame it all on Mark Twain. His novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn established not only the quest theme for 20th century American literature but also the matter and manner of kids' movies. Sommers' brisk, pretty version of Huck's wayward youth gets most of Twain's words right, even if the music sounds like a TV jingle. Huck (plucky Elijah Wood) eludes his troglodyte father (Ron Perlman, doing an uncanny Tom Waits impression) for an eventful honeymoon on a raft with Nigger Jim (just plain Jim here, in a nicely balanced performance by Courtney B. Vance). Huck...
Mitchell hailed journalists for having "encouraged voters to peer through the mud, into the real issues." He quoted Mark Twain, saying that "a lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is still putting on its boots...
Litwack also presented slides of Beals' extensive portrait portfolio, which included photographs of Mark Twain, journalist Ida Tarbell, and Presidents Calvin Coolidge, William Taft, Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...does in any other arena of politics or show biz. Says Buckley, first in the modern line of conservatives who mixed sharp opinions with cutting wit: "Anybody who engages in polemics is, to an extent, engaging in hyperbole. But that's as American as a tall tale of Mark Twain...
...four-man band laid down wave after wave of their unique mix of psychedelia and guitar-heavy rock, playing a majority of songs from their two latest albums (Uncle Anesthesia and Sweet Oblivion) as well as a few older songs like "Where the Twain Shall Meet" and "Change Has Come...