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...group's string of mildly embarrassing experiments--including The Secret Policeman's Other Ball, Time Bandits and Jabberwocky --Jones deftly avoids discussion. He steadfastly resists analyzing what has made any of the Python or Python-offshoot products bad or good. Nor, despite considerable hinting from several quarters, does he agree that Python humor has evolved in any particular way since its creators started dabbling in the commercial feature-film world. For him the most important comic influence remains the English tradition springing from the likes of Tristram Shandy, and after that the "goon shows" of early radio and the comic...
...string of candidates running against the dismal record of the incumbent Administration has led some to theorize that the Presidency and America's problems have in recent years become too complex for anyone to handle. Perhaps, but one contender for the throne, Sen. Gary Hart (D-Colo.), has a different answer. "While the world changes around us," he argues, "we remain mired in irrelevant debate about the wrong issues. Because we have not responded to change, we find ourselves faced with false choices inflation versus recession, government control versus the free market: even technological progress versus jobs...
...mean really, I spoke to my mother yesterday and she's flying off to Colorado with her new boyfriend to go string and I have to hang out in New Jersey...
...Queen on another red carpet, and back up Refugio Road, past somebody's hand-lettered WELCOME LIZ AND PHIL sign, to the Ranch in the Sky. En route Her Majesty put on rubber boots and a Burberry mackintosh; the President changed into cowboy boots, denim jacket and Western string tie. The hours of tough (and maybe gratuitously risky) travel were all for the sake of a Tex-Mex feast: tacos, enchiladas, stuffed chilies, guacamole, refried beans. Just after the Queen and Philip took off back down the mountain, the fog lifted and the splendid views were suddenly unshrouded. "Damn...
...many fine courses already established which approach these disciplines more imaginatively; some students may well prefer them. But it would be foolish to maintain that students learn less about artistic inquiry by tracing the course of art in the Western world than by examining "The Development of the String Quartet." And it would be shameful to continue forcing students to eschew a broader grounding if they choose to seek...