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...stop-start, never-ending reading tour that made him comic literature's equivalent of the Rolling Stones. His work continues to be featured on NPR, and this month Me Talk Pretty One Day, the fourth installment in Sedaris' ongoing autobiography, will be awarded the James Thurber Prize, the national book award for humor. Pretty good for a writer whose idea of fun is "sociological problems and medical mishaps...
...Modern Dance. Openly gay and utterly frank, he wore his hair in a messy mop, tossed off unprintable remarks about his colleagues in a braying class-clown voice, and made startlingly fresh dances whose loose-limbed, heavy-gaited steps (Morris' wonderful dancers can look like James Thurber cartoons come to life) did nothing to conceal his passionately inspired response to music of all kinds (Baroque, Balinese, even country...
...lifelong journalist, Grunwald--once editor-in-chief of Time Inc.--responded to the challenge with brisk attentiveness as much as apprehension. He read up on eye incisions that would make weaker men flinch, learned that James Thurber, after becoming blind, composed whole pages of prose in his head, and discovered that in ancient Egypt, medication for such problems might consist of urine, saliva, honey, the whites of eggs and "the milk of a woman who had borne only boys." Yet all the knowledge in the world could not erase the fact that the words and the paintings that had always...
...Through Oct. 31: "Jim Hodges: every way" (go for The End From Where You Are, a most tender deconstruction of silk flowers), "Home: Photographs by Shellburne Thurber" (documenting the decay of abandoned houses). Nov. 17-Jan. 16, 2000: "Sights Unseen: Shimon Attie, Photographs and Public Projects...
Next to James Thurber, she was probably the funniest serious person who ever lived. She was learned and scrupulous and very brave. She spent the past three years dying of cancer, yet so alive was she with ideas about world events, she made one forget the inevitable. Her small, frail body would shake with rage or laughter at Clinton and Monica, at Congress, at her beloved city of Washington, which she would ridicule in private and defend against outside assaults, as one would a foolish child...