Word: explainers
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This article is designed to explain how to achieve the third answer to this perplexing problem by the use of the vague generality, the artful equivocation and the overpowering assumption...
...those things with low visibility, and therefore it's easy to give in to the interest group," says Warren. "It all flies below the radar screen. That's the best place for the lobbyists. That's where the pickings are the fattest. The only way to explain it is campaign contributions." --With reporting by Laura Karmatz and Andrew Goldstein and research by Joan Levinstein...
...Stefan Kanfer's Groucho: The Life and Times of Julius Henry Marx (Knopf; 465 pages; $30) if you're looking for laughs. Kanfer, a former TIME critic, deserves no censure for failing to amuse with his large, serious and occasionally logy biography. For one thing, no writer could possibly explain what made Groucho Marx so funny. The printed page cannot show what he could do with a quick leap of his eyebrows, much less with his preposterous body, its upper half canted illogically forward from those scurrying legs. His voice? Let's not even...
...soulful. His album comes to life, though, with a rap cameo by Nas on the last track. Singer Carl Thomas' mostly agreeable album has a bit more "street" to it, perhaps because he's on Sean ("Puffy") Combs' Bad Boy label. His association with serial sampler Combs may also explain why the title track on this CD samples a hefty chunk of Sting's song Shape of My Heart. Like Puffy's best appropriations, it's a guilty pleasure...
...this is it, the last In the [K]now of the year, perhaps the last In the [K]now ever. It was pointed out to me that this might be my last chance to ever explain myself. And so, without further ado, I present to you the Interview of all Interviews...