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...Righteous Brothers, and his mother was a teacher) and learned the art of improvisation while with the Los Angeles comedy troupe the Groundlings. By all accounts, he worked hard but was such a natural that it was a given he would follow Phil Hartman and Jon Lovitz on the well-worn road from the Groundlings to Saturday Night Live. When Ferrell arrived at SNL during the 1995-96 season, he rapidly pulled off the difficult trick of being both favored by the writers (he was often in 30 of the 40 sketches prepared for the show) and beloved...
...Delight sits outside his family's tiny house talking with a neighbor who recently returned to Ghana after a failed attempt to get to Europe. Jerry Senanu Nyonator is 28, and like millions of struggling Africans, dreams of working in Europe or the U.S. Three years ago, following the well-worn path of thousands before him, he set out for Europe, catching a bus to Lagos and then to Chad, where he eventually ran out of money and found his papers weren't good enough. "Maybe when I get a passport I will try it again," he says. "That...
...Always Trying to Get You Off.” The variety in the songs depends on how the producer stitches these elements together. Think Newfound Glory, MxPx, Fenix TX, or any of a dozen other 90s pop-punk bands; every element of this disc is old news. Following a well-worn path to musical success is a pardonable offense; to paraphrase Ben Franklin, originality’s all about concealing your sources. But there’s no guile here, and bragging about their theft merits harsher punishment. So when “Infinity on High” opens with...
When it comes to the holidays, I'm like the littleold lady in the well-worn joke. She goes to a restaurant, finishes her meal, then presents the waiter with two complaints: one, the food was awful, and, two, there wasn't enough...
...clarified that the issue was not an immediate priority - was still a bit naive to Roman customs. But it is evidence of a more open intellectual climate under Benedict. And so with Ratzinger, who was perhaps the best-known modern Cardinal to become Pope, there is another bit of well-worn Roman wisdom to ponder: every papacy - like creation itself - is a work in progress...