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...songs that, through its lyrics and melody, immediately transports you to the place where you imagine the singer to be. It couldn't fit the Possum better. You see Jones slumped over a table in a seedy apartment above an equally seedy bar in some Texas downtown. With one hand on his brow and the other on a bottle of cheap whiskey, he laments his aching for alcohol and the pressure and embarrassment this dependency has placed on his wife, who slings drinks in the aforementioned watering hole...
...confidence and omniscience are a thrill, but they can also be somewhat annoying. Sometimes you just long to pick an argument with the man. How can he be so sure? So right? Wolfe tends to dismiss out of hand trends or ideas with which he has no affinity, especially intellectual styles related to deconstructionism and postmodernism. The temptation to ask The Question-does Tom Wolfe know what he's talking about?-is always hovering in the back of your mind. Maybe he's not totally right. Maybe he doesn't really understand the complexities of Foucault, the intricacies involved...
...beginning to write something on what's called the Street Crimes Unit, which is an elite wing of the New York Police Department, who are hand picked. They number only about a hundred. They're almost all exclusively WASPs. There are a few who are not. And they pick people every year, cadets, who "have the eyes." And what that means is that they can watch you walk down the street, cross the street, and judging from your gait, if it's weighted to one side even slightly, they can see if you're packing a weapon, a concealed weapon...
...painting entitled "Farfalli" (Italian for butterfly), which substitutes a single symbol for letters. A large panel of soothing blue and gray is framed on top by a section of roughly textured deeper color and on the sides by narrow panels covered with the outlines of tiny butterflies, each hand-traced on the canvas. Though the painting is softer in both color and style than the others in the show, its effect is no less dramatic. For those who have sometimes felt that words cannot fully capture the essence of an experience, the painting-and the show-is worth a look...
...boob wrangler." And their friendship is evident in Charlie's Angels. Whatever else is going on, the girls clearly have a great time. So much so in fact, that the end of the movie seems a sort of hasty close to an elaborate dress-up game. On the other hand, what can you expect? The Angels save the day and hit the beach for some R & R. In any case Charlie's Angels is gratifying. You'll get what you came for, just don't expect any more than that...