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...Learning How To Smile. While that first volume was a sweet and eclectic (and perhaps corny) manifestation of Art Alexakis' nostalgia, its successor rips those dreamy sentiments to pieces without even bothering to pause for breath. From its bitter opening to its bittersweet conclusion, the distorted fuzz-guitars scarcely let up, striking and churning in sullen anger, often in direct competition with Alexakis' voice...
...defensemen and goalies have watched tapes of Duluth and we're prepared for their offense," Hagerman said. "We're going to try to break the puck out of the zone quickly and not let their forwards get too many shots close to the goalie...
...this summary form, The Elementary Particles does seem to promise a fairly interesting read. But it is the actual prose of the novel which contributes to its generally unbearable nature. Houellebecq simply refuses to let his characters be real human beings. They can exist only as generational archetypes or the embodiments of philosophical speculations. "Was it possible to think of Bruno as an individual?" muses Houellebecq's narrator. "The decay of his organs was particular to him, and he would suffer his decline and death as an individual. On the other hand, his hedonistic worldview and the forces that shaped...
...Unity-shmunity, says Rush Limbaugh. All afternoon as I drive south toward New York in the rain, Limbaugh hoots and brays on the radio: Men cry Peace! Peace! But there is no peace! Let sentimentalist headline writers proclaim A TIME TO HEAL. Let Chris Matthews of "Hardball" go all soft and teary at the noble Gore concession; let the New York Times' columnist Tom Friedman claim that Gore, in his concession, "took a bullet for his country...
...Maharushi will have none of it, and when two callers ask him to let up on the partisanship, at least for one day, and to think nice thoughts about what unites Americans, even after such a bitter ordeal, El Rushbo rips them a new one. The liberals, he says, are more dangerous and partisan now than ever; their way forward as a party now is to make W. fail, and the only way to deal with them is, as always, with a whip and a chair and a revolver...