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...reason is a longstanding infatuation that has recently overtaken my waking hours. Just as Orpheus' lyre drew the beasts and the rocks to him, so have the plangent cries of the pedal steel guitar attracted a hundred-odd aficionados of the instrument to this the 27th annual convention of the Pedal Steel Guitar Association. There will be performances by steelers from all over the country and Canada, a seminar (my main reason for coming) and a jam session featuring three of the leading exponents of the instrument. There will also be hardware, strings, instructional materials, hard-to-find...
...deadline. The Bush camp wants to stop them, the Gore camp wants to make sure they matter. Broward County is counting again, under heavy pressure from the Democratic party. And Palm Beach County, for reasons known only to its canvassing board, wants very badly to count its 400,000-odd ballots by hand, but hasn't started...
...odd ending was the perfect fit to the best Ivy League game played so far this year...
...Without Seuss's guiding hand on the live-action Grinch movie, producer Brian Grazer and makeup artist Rick Baker argued whether the citizens of Who-ville should look odd (Baker's choice) or cute (Grazer's), and debate raged over what shade of green the Grinch should be. Because Seuss's own illustrations in his book were too austere for a splashy holiday movie (his Whos lived in thatched huts), production designer Michael Corenblith had to comb through the entire Seuss canon to find recurring shapes and motifs on which to base the film's swirling, elaborate sets...
Nader's relationship with Harvard is an odd one. On one hand, he constantly blasts HLS for what he sees as a propensity to create corporate attorneys rather than socially conscious lawyers...