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...word from the New Age's reigning whirling dervish, Shirley MacLaine. To the soothing accompaniment of crystal chimes and distant waterfalls, the star of Terms of Endearment leads her new acolytes in meditating on the body's various chakras, or energy points. First comes the spinning red wheel of the base chakra, then the sexual pulsation of the orange chakra, and finally upward to the solar plexus and the visceral emotions of the yellow chakra...
...explain it to you," says Jackie Mason in his television commercials for the new Honda Prelude with four-wheel steering. Jabbing his elbows this way and that, the Borscht Belt funnyman proceeds to confuse a subject that is already complicated: "The car is going like this, the wheel is going like that, you're going like this because you can't figure out where did the back...
...galloping "news correspondent" Tom Brokaw, fresh from his exclusive prime-time pow-wow with Gorby in Moscow. He still has trouble pronouncing words that begin with the letter "L", but he was in charge throughout with the help of the same bell that rings when letters are turned on Wheel of Fortune. Candidates knew their minute was up when a soft electronic bell was cued, much like Johnny Carson knows he has to break to a commercial when the pianist breaks into arpeggios...
Then there is the Freudian explanation for the insanity caused by addiction to Wheel of Fortune: "It is the work of the unconscious mind comprised of the sex-starved war monger id and the goody-goody super ego." Even Moschitta's discourses on literature seem to encapsulate the key points of that concentration's tutorial: "War and Peace is exactly like Moby Dick because both are incredibly boring. That's what makes great books great...
...seemed to come from some new national folklore, timeless music conjuring a time that never was. He has been away eleven years now, ever since he organized rock's greatest farewell concert, 1976's The Last Waltz, during which he and the Band brought together "different spokes in the wheel of our music" -- Bob Dylan to Neil Diamond, Joni Mitchell to Muddy Waters -- and saw themselves off into the history books in princely fashion...