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
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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- Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.
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