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...Well, Did You Evah." And in the four flavorful minutes of "Now You Has Jazz," with Armstrong and his band, Crosby displays his vocal and verbal acuity in top form. This song, like the one with Sinatra, was considerably revised - ad-libbed, if you like - from Cole Porter's text. Bing's asides are apt and inspired: when Armstrong sings "Frenchmens all/ Prefer what they call/ Lay jazz hot," Bing apostrophizes a très-français "formidable!" Satch, Trummy Young, Billy Kyle and the rest broil their venerable chops in a sweetly swingin' 12-bar blues. And Bing...
These gleeful students would do well to keep on reading, because the Talmud text immediately continues...
...bill's text notes that the Houses have not seen an appreciable increase in crime since the implementation of partial universal access...
That's the bad news; the good news is that the days of teachers' having to navigate through error-strewn, out-of-date texts--and of kids' having to lug 30-lb. book bags--are almost over. The major publishers, fearful of yet another report slamming their product, have hired more fact checkers and instituted extra layers of review. More significant, this month McGraw-Hill plans to launch its first e-textbooks--online versions of its printed texts, featuring videos, interactive lab exercises and personalized assessment tools. Factual errors, once discovered, will be corrected immediately. Five years from...
...Perhaps it's because I work in a medium, HTML text posted on web servers, that was Napstered before there was a Napster, but it didn't worry me. From day one, anyone who read my writings on TIME.com was free to copy and e-mail copies to 10 friends. You could do it right now. In fact, why don't you? Good luck is sure to follow for all your days...