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NEARLY 80 YEARS after the linguist Ferdinand de Saussure came upon his discovery that the sign, doublefaced by nature, hides its meaning behind the surface of language, editor Marshall Blonsky claims in his introduction that the science of semiotics has reached a point of critical paralysis, suspended somewhere in between the realms of theory and practice, and undermined by the literal crisis in meaning that it originally set out to study...
...child of the Bronx, Pinckney visited the other New York boroughs, * sampling different styles like a linguist studying accents. In Manhattan, he learned power, in Queens finesse. Brooklyn showed Pinckney the attraction of flamboyance, but it is unlike him to display any. Massimino's preaching of "the perfect game" impressed the 6-ft. 9 1/2-in. senior center and fascinated him. "On a one-shot deal, we can beat anyone in the United States," the coach urged, and had Pinckney not believed him, would what the others thought have mattered? Though only by two points and a rebound statistically, he outplayed...
...week's activities begin tonight, when noted linguist Noam Chomsky will speak in Emerson Hall...
...Kelly's original dance with Carol Haney, whose figure was later replaced by a cartoon figure for the animated classic Invitation to Dance. Kelly dances with garbage-can lids on his feet in It's Always Fair Weather and Donald O'Connor helps him make a shambles of a linguist's office in "Moses" from Singing in the Rain...
...hasn't gotten worse in the last 15 years: "I don't think it's any more the case now than when I was a junior faculty member...We don't in this department make a great deal out of socializing." But on the other hand, says one junior linguist, socializing helps. The senior faculty "really made an effort to make me feel comfortable by having me to lunch and to dinner...Perhaps if all the departments did that there would be fewer unhappy junior faculty members around...