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Personal essays share the author's adventures after buying a vacation house on the Carolina coast and his reflections on middle age and mortality.
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Commentary From David Sedaris
David Sedaris, I travel across America twice a year, making lots of stops along the way, and each time the country feels a little different. On this latest trip I noticed an increased use of the word \"perfect,\" not as an adjective - a perfect spinach souffle, a perfect figure eight - but as a response to a statement. My father used to call other men \"Sonny.\" Not if they were kids or wore suits and ties, but only if they were his age, and pumped his gas, or carried his golf clubs.
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Humor from David Sedaris
During this difficult time when so many Americas are looking for work, I'd like introduce an idea for something I'm calling the citizen's dismissal. It's like a citizen's arrest, but instead of detaining someone, you get to ?re them. Take this lifeguard at a YMCA I went to. I bought a guest pass so that I could swim laps, and ten minutes after I'd started, the young woman blew her whistle, calling you all have to leave now. How come? I asked. I have to go to my parents' house she said. I thought I hadn't heard her correctly. I'm going there to do some laundry, she told me. And then I'm going home.
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'I'll never run out of things to laugh about'
He is one of America's funniest writers and performers, a man who can get a whole book out of buying an owl or dressing up as an elf. As he prepares for his Edinburgh festival show, David Sedaris talks to Stuart Jeffries. (Quotes from original text)
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CBS SUNDAY MORNING for August 25, 2024, CBS
At a time when politics leaves many of us bitterly divided, high school students from all walks of life attend the week-long Girls State to participate in an exercise in democracy. The Rolling Stones' \"Hackney Diamonds\" was the band's first album of original music in 18 years - and their first since the death, in 2021, of drummer Charlie Watts. The electric-plane future is about to take off. By inviting singers from around the world, the non-profit Opera for Peace hopes to develop greater diversity among performers of opera, and to inspire the next generation of opera audiences. One-hundred-and-fifty years ago, New York City's 92nd Street Y was founded as a community and performance center, an inclusive meeting place where people could go to make their lives more meaningful. After the Taliban regained power in Afghanistan, education for girls and boys has been a rare commodity in a country where families must make devastating choices in order to guarantee their survival. Commanding your device to do things you could just as well do yourself is a mark of technological progress that humorist David Sedaris finds peculiar, when your voice-activated app is not up to the job. When Minneapolis bus driver Jayne Arendt-Verhelst saw a woman, apparently homeless, enter her bus barefoot, she broke a rule in order to help. The tiny town of Hobart, New York, is home to around 400 residents and seven bookstores. \"N/A\" playwright Mario Correa on the power of removing labels. GUESTS: Mario Correa
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CBS SUNDAY MORNING for July 28, 2024, CBS
After President Joe Biden bowed out from the race for re-election, passing the baton to Vice President Kamala Harris, his closest allies, who supported him as the party's nominee, were emotional about his decision.In the past week, following President Joe Biden's withdrawal from the presidential race, Vice President Kamala Harris has all but locked in her party's nomination, racked up an impressive list of endorsements, and hauled in a mountain of cash. When \"The Karate Kid\" came out in the summer of 1984, the little movie about rival martial arts students, competing against big-budget blockbusters, became one of the highest-grossing films of the year. Putting together the first authorized exhibition in 14 years of works by the anonymous street artist Banksy required extensive planning, and a cover story to hide its secret until it opened, unannounced, in Glasgow last summer. Sand artist Denny Dyke has been creating elaborate designs on the beach at Bandon, Oregon -- twisting shapes that have drawn fans to walk his labyrinths before Nature washes them away. Five years after Hong Kong saw what's recognized as likely the biggest pro-democracy, anti-China protests in its history, dissent in this city of more than seven million is quelled, after Beijing and Hong Kong rammed through controversial national security laws that make any action or word critical of the government potentially punishable by life in prison. Jon M. Chu, the son of immigrant parents, immersed himself in American culture growing up, and built a career as a filmmaker with hits such as \"Crazy Rich Asians\" and \"In the Heights,\" tapping into his own identity and translating stories of struggle and ambition to the silver screen. Co-founded by George Balanchine in 1948, New York City Ballet is considered one of the best dance companies in the world, and the foundation of ballet in America. Isle au Haut has a year-round population of about 50 hardy souls, unafraid of living on an island with few amenities off the coast of Maine. People throw money at a lot of things, the humorist notes, including the World's Largest Alligator.
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Is David Sedaris Funny in Greek?
A translator contemplates the challenges and rewards of translating the humor of American writer David Sedaris for a Greek audience.
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