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Cecil Adams says he knows what OK stands for. Now if only somebody would clear up that "whole nine yards" mess.
B. S. Prakash muses on what it takes to get into the American labor force. The last line's a kicker.
And popular songs and why only "Yesterday" became a "standard in the old fashioned sense."
Tomorrow, music editor Robert Baird is off to Austin, Texas, for the South By Southwest Music, Film, and Interactive Fest. He attends year after year.
I remember, back in college, I pined to go to this. Though I was a DJ and music director at our little independent radio station, we were never able to raise the funds to participate in the event. Austin, TX, seemed a million miles away from the Hackensack River, and even during high-tide, we'd never make it there.
Later, in the dreamy days and drunken nights of Multi-Purpose Solution land, I longed for the band to actually…
The paintings of Amy Crehore. What would you call these—innocently malevolent? Sweetly creepy? I wonder if she's the next poster craze a la Balthus?