Word: candidates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...treatise on "The Semiotics of Semiotics," Wlad Godzich professes the self-conscious hope "to have been doing semiotics and not merely to have been writing about it." It is Barthes, however, who executes the language of language with consummate grace. Whether he is posing with candid self exposure in a Playboy interview ("I had a super skinny morphology throughout my youth") or indulging in speculation about the culinary orgasms of Brillat-Savarin ("BS desires the word as he desires truffles") or performing with routine ease a classic clinical dissection of text ("A Textual Analysis of a Tale...
...OMPILED BY STUDENTS, for students, the faculty-funded CUE Guide meets an important demand. By providing well-researched, candid critiques and statistical data, it helps undergraduates choose courses...
...senior admissions officer yesterday offered 300 parents some candid insights into the Harvard admissions process, saying that interviews and standardized tests generally carry less weight than high school performance in admissions decisions...
...what kinds of securities the club is investing in, Davis is very candid: "We're investing 50 percent of our portfolio in growth stocks, 25 percent in dividend stocks, and 25 percent in speculative stocks." At the end of the year, any member who wishes can receive his percentage of the club's profits...
...umbrella hat. The most poignant sequence is a reminiscence by a woman who is selling her home and its contents after the breakup of her marriage to what seemed to be a sensitive, feminist man. The piece is at once an unabashed defense of human-potential movements and a candid acceptance of their limits. Even the less ambitious, more conventional sketches contain lines to cherish. Perhaps the signature for the evening is an observation that in a time of national obsession with health, "I worry that we don't have a metaphysical-fitness program." For that lack, Tomlin's show...