Monday, January 2, 2006

A STILL POINT IN A TURNING WORLD: Virginia Heffernan muses on the New Years' Eve return of Dick Clark
The adolescence of America's Oldest Living Teenager - Mr. Clark's hyper, chipper, fun-loving persona - had, in his 76th year, finally abandoned him. In its place was another, more ambiguous holiday figure: the couchbound relative who, maudlin and exhausted, weeps at how lucky he is to be around his family one more year.

Tom Shales has more on the night that was.

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