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...three instrumentals per album from among mostly vocal selections, a problem that has been elegantly remedied by the release of this, the first of four Watson retrospective CDs. The handsome package and excellent liner notes show due appreciation for Watson's legacy, but even in a brown paper wrapper this collection would be essential for anyone with an interest in acoustic steel-string guitar. Aficionados will regret the omission of the classic "Beaumont Rag," but flatpicking touchstones such as "Black Mountain Rag" and "Salt River" and the dazzling fingerpicking of "Doc's Guitar" demonstrate the power and control that...
...shooting pool and watching Star Trek with Tommy Lee Jones, chasing through the woods with coon dogs in the middle of the night, wrapping a turkey in aluminum foil and roasting it in the fireplace. At this convention, Gore's image was the thing being cooked inside the shiny wrapper. And the message? As his old friend Bob Delabar put it Thursday night during a podium discussion of All Things Al, Gore "always seemed to me to be a regular and easygoing fellow...
...offered a thousand opinions about who Gore is. But his speech suggested a simple one: He's a man who knows that he and the system are flawed but who just might be smart and tough enough to get some things done. Gore came out of his shiny foil wrapper...
...White House, others at the Holocaust Museum or the American Israel Political Affairs Committee or National Hillel. Maybe, I thought, these people have the opportunities to work on a bigger scale than I do. Maybe their efforts can actually make a difference, while my picking up a gum wrapper from the streets of Jerusalem only makes room for the next one to be thrown. In fact, however, these interns seem to do even less than that. They sheepishly admitted to spending most of their day sending e-mail and Instant Messages...
...someone offers to pay you cash money to get into your car every day and drive to and from the office, the same as you usually do, with just one catch. A vinyl wrapper will be stretched over the car so that it looks like you're driving a pint of ice cream...