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...suicidal spell that day was the sound from a neighboring flat of a man singing a twee Scottish song, Mhairi's Wedding. The prospect of jumping out of a window to the lyrics, "Step we gaily, on we go ?" was more than her resolve could bear. It's a classic Kennedy moment, the kind of divine comedic intervention that lights up her best fiction and overwhelms the bleakest corners. There could be no more astute and no less tedious a companion than Kennedy on a bender to oblivion. Salman Rushdie said once that what he sought in his novels...
...Clash were the best band in the world. And that year at London's Vanilla studios, they began work on their classic, London Calling. But the rehearsal tapes were left in the underground by a drunk roadie and thought lost. Now for the 25th anniversary, London Calling is being re-released with the newfound "Vanilla Tapes." TIME's Hugh Porter spoke to former Clash guitarist Mick Jones. your roadie recently confessed to losing the vanilla tapes. how did they turn up? They were thought to be the only copies, but at the start of this year I moved house. While...
...puts together clever set pieces, such as the Great Cow Race, where Phoney introduces a "mystery cow" - actually Smiley in a costume - convincing the locals to go for this sucker bet over the favorite: Gran'ma Ben(!). The final race turns into a raucously funny slapstick worthy of a classic Chuck Jones cartoon. "Bone" keeps the comic in comix, without being juvenile, in a smart but universally funny way that has become all too rare in the form...
PREDICTION: I’m holding off on quoting a final score until our Harvard-Yale supplement, but let me just say that the quarterback play will undoubtedly make this game a classic...
...said there was something he had to do, but he couldn’t tell us why [he was going],” said Levitsky, who teaches government and social science at Harvard. “It was the classic movie line for someone going off on a secret CIA mission...