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Without fail, every spring I wax poetic about the return of baseball and all that is Good and True in the world. Baseball is part of American culture...
After a regular season in which Grumet-Morris has seen his job security wax and wane with his performances, the on-again, off-again competition for the No. 1 spot with sophomore John Daigneau appears to be on hold...
...switch modes from preacher to player in an instant—his music has more emotional range than Shakespeare’s First Folio. At one moment, he is a dirty-talking player: for example, “Girl, you look just like my cars, I wanna wax it. / And something like my bank account, I wanna spend it.” But blink an eyelid, and the R transforms into a spiritual guide. “I Believe I Can Fly,” it is safe to say, is one of the most uplifting ballads of our era?...
...drapery quivers with emotion and vibrates with light. There may be more mundane reasons for the wan, otherworldly look of El Greco's people: he worked in light and shade before adding layers of color that don't always overcome the underlying gray tones, and he painted from wax models rather than directly from the figure. On his death in 1614, 50 models were found among his effects. Despite disdaining anatomy, he loved the texture of fur, hair, trees and starched linen. St. Jerome as Scholar (ca. 1600-1614) is almost all oversized red cape, silky white beard, fuzzy hair...
Just as his alliances with Senate soldiers made Kerry both more successful and more human, so has his dependence on veterans during the campaign. In their company Kerry seems least like the cartoon version of himself: the loner, the striver who escaped from the wax museum. With his comrades-in-arms, including the ones who come up to him at campaign events with a memory to share, a story to tell, Kerry finds time to pay attention, lean in, not look over their shoulder to see who else is in the room...