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...it’s maybe best described as a play with songs. While writing this play and the last one, some material leapt out in meter, or with a melody, or with a bass-and-percussion rhythm attached. Music and song evoke responses in us that straight text doesn’t, and vice-versa. I keep finding myself wanting to juxtapose text and song, but not in a new-music-opera way. I’m too much of a text-bound creature for that...
...France and Russia dropped their opposition to the U.S.-sponsored text once they were satisfied that the resolution is not simply a trigger-mechanism for invasion. And even Syria, against expectations, added its vote to the resolution, suggesting that Arab League member states who have opposed an attack on Iraq are signaling Saddam that Iraqi disarmament as the only way to avoid...
...book, a mix of sardonic text and cartoons, describes what Adams has dubbed the Weasel Zone--"a gigantic gray area between good moral behavior and outright felonious activities." Adams says he came up with the concept when he realized that "weasels had gone from being the exception to the norm, kind of infested all of society, from the cubicle next to you to your boss to the government, obviously, where it all started; then it was in the church, and maybe it's Martha Stewart--you don't know--and pretty soon it's everywhere." In chapters like "Financial Weasels...
...cents is what a British company charges to name that tune. Dial a number on your cell phone, point it at the source of recorded music and the company instantly sends you a text message naming the title and artist...
...Police: there was the professor with organizational skills based solely on conversational whim, the professor who spoke in a whisper and looked up from his feet only when the fire alarm went off and the multiple professors who spent fourteen 52-minute sessions reading directly from thick pages of text. And let’s not forget the quality teaching fellows (TFs) who accompanied these professors. There was the one who started crying at a student question, the one who spent sections discussing his girlfriend and the one who regularly lost control of her cleavage, distracting half the class from...