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After a decade this glum, we deserved a shot of 'Glee,' a show that restored our faith in the power of song, the beauty of dance, and the magic of 'spirit fingers' to chase our cares and woes into somebody else's backyard.


James Wolcott


#backyard #beauty #cares #chase #dance

Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.


James Wolcott


#become #been #design #iconography #like

Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective.


James Wolcott


#comedy #defective #episodic #explain #factory

I try to avoid Politico to spare myself psoriasis of the brain but so many journalists cite it that I'm forced to be aware of it no matter how big a moat I build.


James Wolcott


#aware #big #brain #build #cite

I understand that one of the purposes of bipartisanship is to cram something difficult and necessary down the American people's gullets for which neither party has the fortitude to assume full responsibility. It's a way of turning a possible gangplank into a teeter-totter.


James Wolcott


#assume #bipartisanship #cram #difficult #down

If you were to hold me down and tickle me to pick my favorite 'plus-comic,' it would have to be Kevin James, a broad physical pratfaller capable of deadpan underplay, a technique honed from years of reaction-shot close-ups on TV, where every teeny fraction of a squint registers.


James Wolcott


#capable #down #every #favorite #fraction

In 2008, Barack Obama did get Democrats hyperventilating, whipped up to a creamy froth, while John McCain creaked ahead like a cranky granddad whom Republicans let move to the front of the buffet line, deferring to seniority, as they had in 1996, when Bob Dole turtled to the top of the ticket.


James Wolcott


#barack #barack obama #bob #buffet #cranky

It isn't that NPR is matriarchal but that it has dedicated itself to not being patriarchal in its outlook and presentation, stipulating from the outset that its headline voices would not resound across the fruited plains from big male bags of air sent from Mount Olympus.


James Wolcott


#air #bags #being #big #dedicated

It was with 9/11 that I came to fully appreciate and embrace NPR's irreplaceability as a sanity preserver, its unique virtues as first responder on the burning scene.


James Wolcott


#burning #came #embrace #first #fully

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.


Thomas Wolfe


#forget #reader #reads #reason #remember






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