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...almost part of their family," Johnson says. "We take care of their pride and joy. If they don't get their mail, they get upset...
Freaks' strength, and perhaps its ratings liability, was that it resisted easy pigeonholing. It captures the joy and miseries of adolescence but from a wry, adult perspective, without easy nerd jokes, implausible sex scenes or a single false moment. "It's closer to Welcome to the Dollhouse than to Dawson's Creek," says executive producer Judd Apatow. "And as much as I liked Welcome to the Dollhouse, it didn't make as much money as Scream." Indeed, the closest analogs to Freaks are not TV shows but independent films--Dollhouse, Rushmore, Dazed and Confused. Unfortunately, there aren't as many...
...Seen: sharing French Fries in Loker Commons, taking compulsive notes in English 10B lecture, squealing in joy at the Science Center mailboxes...
...both of beauty and of its transience. The subject of love crops up repeatedly in the book's 60 lyrics, but the Boss Cupid of the title is not the chubby winged cherub of popular lore. He is something of a hooligan, "devious master of our bodies," wreaker of joy and havoc: "Love makes the cuckoo heave its foster-siblings/Out of the nest, to spatter on the ground." Pleasure is the other side of loss. In "American Boy" Gunn writes, "Expertly you know how to maintain me/At the exact degree/of hunger without starving. We produce/ What warmth...
...rising stock-market wealth, U.S. consumers are saving more and the Consumer Price Index would almost flat-line if not for high oil prices (which have risen as a result of supply shortages, not an irrational demand). We are living out Paul Simon's prophetic song that celebrates the joy of being Born at the Right Time. We can continue to do so, absent a rogue Fed chairman bent on creating a "visible" hand in free markets--his own. It is time for the Fed to allow an economic expansion that could do wonders to eliminate poverty and level...