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...expected, the phone rings, and Wallace takes down the instructions for his persona of the evening. Unbeknownst to him, though, he has received the call intended for a government hit man, expected to help with a plan to destabilize the Anglo-Russian detente whose peace treaty is to be signed that evening. What ensues is Hitchcock's "wrong man" scenario, but with humor instead of horror, and Bill Murray instead of Cary Grant...
...name so perfectly suggests, Ally is a slightly off-kilter, upper-middle-class Anglo-Saxon--she's imperfection idealized. She went to Harvard Law School, and professionally she appears to be a great success. But in fact she's an emotional muddle, confused about her career and her love life. As luck would have it, her childhood sweetheart, whom she broke up with at Harvard, is a partner in her firm and is married to a bright, attractive woman. Ally still loves him, and there are intimations that the feeling may be returned, but otherwise she is alone. Smart...
...remote past and should be understood as "twice-appropriated." The inhabitants of pre-Christian Britain and Ireland celebrated a festival on Oct. 31 in honor of Sambain, the god of the dead. This celebration also coincided with the beginning of the New Year (Nov. 1) in both Celtic and Anglo-Saxon observance. The festival was thought to represent a time of unparalleled interaction between the worlds of man and spirit; celebrants lit bonfires to ward off evil spirits and diviners claimed that the day marked an ideal moment to prognosticate concerning marriage prospects, luck and health...
Rauschenberg was a Texas boy, two parts Anglo, one part German, one part Cherokee. He was born in 1925 in one of the most art-free zones of America, Port Arthur, a bayou oil-refinery town on the Gulf of Mexico. His parents were Fundamentalist Christians, and as a teenager he thought of becoming a preacher. Luckily for American art, and perhaps for the ministry too, he ditched the notion on realizing that the Church of Christ forbade dancing. He did a stint in the Navy, as a male psychiatric nurse--which confirmed him as a lifelong pacifist. He dabbled...
...They've got a flaky person," he said. "She may have a Hispanic name, but she's never dated a Hispanic-American, her husband's an Anglo, and she lives three districts away [from the one she represents...