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Harvard’s two most popular and most widely publicized sports—by almost any definition—are men’s hockey and football. And conveniently, there are recent examples in both of these sports wherein the University was complacent and allowed coaches to wallow in mediocrity for too long...
...reader can't help thinking, you wouldn't be sitting around crafting a gently mocking novel about it; you'd be out there doing something. The real targets of satire tend to be impervious to it, anyway. As Jonathan Swift put it, "Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own." Of course, Swift is talking about far less sophisticated readers than you and I. Poor suckers...
Then something funny happened on Sunday. The Sox game was on, yet the final round of The Masters simultaneously was taking place—wherein my favorite golfer, Phil Mickelson—was trying to win his first Major ever after a career of disappointments and top-three finishes without a win. As I flipped back and forth at every lull in the action of the Sox game or every time a golfer besides Mickelson was being shown, both Mickelson and the Sox faltered early as both Ernie Els and the Blue Jays took early leads...
Band of Bozos? The Fellowship of the Dingbats? Dawn of the Brain Dead? Something along those lines might be a more telling title for The Ladykillers, wherein the Coen brothers merrily subvert that standard caper trope in which a bunch of guys tunnel their way toward a large cache of cash and, naturally, an even larger concluding irony...
...Mehldau’s idea of standards extends beyond the more traditional jazz fare, wherein lies much of his appeal to non-jazzheads (such as myself). Mehldau reinterprets Paul Simon’s wistful “Still Crazy After All These Years” as a perplexed and perplexing song that marvels at itself even as it brushes with indecision. The trio’s take of Radiohead’s “Everything In Its Right Place” is much more of a group piece, allowing bassist Larry Grenadier to shine on the insistent bassline that...