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Verve Presents: The Very Best of Christmas Jazz Christmas purists, look away now. For most, the holiday season brings to mind images of white snow outside, green trees inside and Yuletide carols being sung by a choir around a battered upright piano. For the majority, carols sung by the Vienna Boys Choir are just peachy, Bing Crosby pushes the envelope, and jazz should stay where it belongs—at the Village Vanguard. For the dissenting minority, holiday songs have long been beaten into unholy submission by endless bland repetition, and jazz giants provide a perfect remedy by taking tradition...
...obsessed-over season premiere and it didn’t have a single appearance by the invaluable Morgan. And there are some signs that point to good things for the season ahead: the arrival of Amy Poehler from Comedy Central’s weird and wonderful “Upright Citizens’ Brigade” to augment newly-promoted cast members Rachel Dratch, Fey and Maya Rudolph means that this cast has the strongest corps of SNL women in memory. Sure, there’s always a chance that the terrible Barrymore episode was only the beginning...
...showed me some things about stick positioning and keeping an upright stance,” Crothers said...
...good thing could come from this horror: it could spell the end of the age of irony. For some 30 years--roughly as long as the Twin Towers were upright--the good folks in charge of America's intellectual life have insisted that nothing was to be believed in or taken seriously. Nothing was real. With a giggle and a smirk, our chattering classes--our columnists and pop culture makers--declared that detachment and personal whimsy were the necessary tools for an oh-so-cool life. Who but a slobbering bumpkin would think, "I feel your pain"? The ironists, seeing...
...that sentence, of course, and many a visitor will tell you that Japan has mastered the art of not appearing to be worried by burying its collective head in the sand; last year alone, after all, the Nikkei index lost a quarter of its value. The maintenance of an upright, even upbeat public face is part of what has led generations of outsiders to talk of "inscrutability" (a nice word for insincerity) and to ask if smiles, in this proud and often aggressive country, are not just a way of keeping tears...