And in doing so it becomes the first mainstream musical since "Rent" to coo with such seductive directness to theatergoers on the fair side of 40 in their own language, in which irony is less a mind-set than a loosely worn style.
The poet Peter Orlovsky, his lifelong partner, remained as primarily heterosexual as ever, with less of a mind to make erotic exceptions for the queer celebrity who supported him.
Indeed, no less a financial mind than Bill Gross has been warning of this for a long time, and that is why he recommended selling Treasuries just two weeks ago (right near the recent yield high).
Such style, which cannot exist without the gift of humor, is less a specific mind-set than a liberated, and by consequence, liberating, view.
Fortunately this week was incest-free on Boardwalk (although the episode was no less of a mind-blower) but now I have to deal with it on Dexter!
But the idea of banning one of a small number of successful female rappers, while allowing the men to hang their testicles to the floor is nothing less than a mind-boggling exhibition of blatant sexism.
Hawking said heaven's a fairy tale for people afraid of the dark, and that passes the muster of "Everything I've Been Told About Reality is Totally Wrong 101," but I expect something a little less glib from a mind like his.
It was a comedic adrenaline rush that, with a mind less well-organized, with resources less deep, would have produced gibberish.
Such was the embarrassment of my host that he immediately jumped to my defence, nobly attempting to clarify the difference between the concept of a great monolith in the sky and a sense of personal empowerment and self-realisation that a less developed mind would in a previous century have ascribed to the divine.
For a less gifted mind, such an unbounded menu of sound could so easily produce chaos.
