http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2005/aug/17/ http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/audio.wnyc.org/lopate/lopate081705a.mp3 The Leonard Lopate Show: Words Fail Me (August 17, 2005) http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2005/aug/17/words-fail-me/ true 51271 segment Wordmaster Patricia T. (Words Fail Me) O'Conner answers your grammar and usage questions. Call 212-433-9692. Music: “Three Little Words” by Mel Torme, Carmen Mc Rae and Bud Freeman http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/audio.wnyc.org/lopate/lopate081705b.mp3 The Leonard Lopate Show: This Boot Is Made For Fonkin' (August 17, 2005) http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2005/aug/17/this-boot-is-made-for-fonkin/ true 51272 segment Bootsy Collins helped shaped James Brown’s sound as a bassist in the 1970s. And he was an instrumental part of George Clinton’s P-Funk—he composed, arranged, and played for the band. He’ll tell us about his long and influential career. Events: Bootsy Collins is the curator of the AmsterJam festival http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/audio.wnyc.org/lopate/lopate081705c.mp3 The Leonard Lopate Show: The Emmett Till Story (August 17, 2005) http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2005/aug/17/the-emmett-till-story/ true 51273 segment In 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till was killed in Mississippi for allegedly whistling at a white woman. Media coverage of his gruesome death brought momentum to the coming Civil Rights Movement in the South. Filmmaker Keith A. Beauchamp revisits Emmett Till’s life and death in a new investigative docum http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/audio.wnyc.org/lopate/lopate081705d.mp3 The Leonard Lopate Show: The Long Emergency (August 17, 2005) http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2005/aug/17/the-long-emergency/ true 51274 segment James Howard Kunstler warns that the world is unprepared for a post-oil future in The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of the Oil Age, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century. Music: “Pole Tricks” by Japancakes and “(Nothing But) Flowers” by Talking Heads