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Some local politicos even suggest that certain officials trade council votes or political backing for campaign funds, and that conflicts of interest are an everyday occurrence at City Hall...
...interlocutors of Vox -- Abby and Jim (the pedestrian names somehow don't do them justice) -- are virtuoso talkers. They are not merely poets of sexuality (an eroticized George and Gracie) but acute lyricists of everyday life. Listen to Abby's riff on pop songs that end with fade-outs ("this attempt to imply that oh yeah, we're a bunch of endlessly creative folks who jam all night"); while Jim explains why he doesn't bother to buy such records ("you really need the feeling of radio luck in listening to pop music...
...though you had a thousand years to live," said Mother Ann Lee, founder of the Shaker religious sect, "and as you would if you knew you must die tomorrow." It is no accident that Ken Burns picked the Shakers, who believed that God dwelt in the craftsmanship of their everyday work, as the subject for one of his films. Each of his works seems the labor of a lifetime: a painstaking assemblage of archival photographs, period documents, interviews and music, welded together by narration that can soar to near religious inspiration...
...taken in small doses, this book will surely lift readers' spirits. Its warmth and romanticism are welcome reliefs from the cold realities of everyday life (especially in January). If you like reading before you go to bed, leafing through an essay or two is the perfect way to ease your worries about tomorrow and to remind you of the richness of life...
...Watchers. Once a lively writer who impersonated a Playboy Bunny to expose Hugh Hefner's cheesy idea of sex appeal and quipped that if men could menstruate they would brag about how long and how much, she had produced very little since her collection of essays, Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, in 1983. Ms., the magazine she co-founded in 1972 and edited from crisis to crisis ever since, was spinning out of her control...