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"THE END OF ALL INTELLIGENT ANALYSIS IS TO CLEAR THE WAY FOR SYNTHESIS."--H.G. Wells. "It's always a leap into the unknown future to write anything."--Margaret Atwood "Be kind, be useful, be fearless."--President Barack Obama.
Friday, January 17, 2020
The Wonder (Continued)
I decided to repost this so it can headline the weekend. After their triumph at the college talent show, the Wonders get a semi-professional recording of their song, "That Thing You Do" in the Tom Hanks film of that title (see the first clip here.) A local talent manager promises to get them airplay, and in this scene, they hear it for the first time on the radio. This is one of the great joyous scenes in movies, and a particular fantasy for those who have dreamed this dream. I've had the experience of hearing my record on the radio for the first time but I was alone. Here it's group joy, as unrestrained as it can get in 1960s Main Street Erie, PA. Liv Tyler's screams make it all work. I could watch this clip forever.
What Really Happened to the Class of '65?
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*What Really Happened to the Class of '65* by Michael Medved and David
Wallechinsky was a best seller in 1976 or so. I got a paperback copy soon
after ...
First Half Pirates, Vals and Fever
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It's just past the All-Star break in both Major League Baseball and the
WNBA. For me what's most notable in baseball is that at the halfway point
the ...
Singing It Now
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Come on all of you big strong men
Uncle Sam needs your help again
He's got himself in a terrible jam
Way down yonder in I-ran
So put down your books...
Coming Soon? Star Trek: In Name Only
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"Could Star Trek be dying?" Those were the opening words of my New York
Times article in 2004. At that time, as in some previous moments, the
threat ...
Jonathan Miller
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Of all the people I didn't know who died in 2019, I was most saddened by
the death of Jonathan Miller. He was an important presence at various
times in ...
6 years ago
The Malling of America
available at your online bookseller
Manifesto
..."The answer that led those who have been told for so long by so many to be cynical, and fearful, and doubtful of what we can achieve, to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day."--Barack Obama Nov. 4, 2008
"Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions - who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short. For they have forgotten what this country has already done; what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage." Barack Obama January 20, 2009
"If you turn away now – if you buy into the cynicism that the change we fought for isn’t possible…well, change will not happen. If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void: lobbyists and special interests; the people with the $10 million checks who are trying to buy this election and those who are making it harder for you to vote; Washington politicians who want to decide who you can marry, or control health care choices that women should make for themselves. Only you can make sure that doesn't happen. Only you have the power to move us forward.--President Obama on Sept. 6, 2012
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