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...palindromes. Other OuLiPoian inventions are equally astonishing. Poet Jean Lescure's N (or V) +7 formula takes the noun or verb of a given text and replaces it with the seventh of the following nouns (or verbs) in any given dictionary. In the February issue of Scientific American, Columnist Martin Gardner, an OuLiPo fan converts the opening two lines of Moby Dick into: "Call me islander. Some yeggs ago-never mind how long precisely-having little or no Mongol in my purulence, and nothing particular to interest me on shortbread, I thought I would sail about a little...
...considers the accoutrements of bogus sophistication--white-walled apartments on Riverside Drive, unread stacks of The New York Review of Books, Coltrane records on the stereo. All that can be said for Wolfe's own style is that it's, well, catty. It's the style of a gossip columnist for a small-town newspaper who describes some awful shotgun wedding where all the principals involved hate each other with smug sarcasm as "a good time...
...articles in last week's Crimson misrepresented Laura Shapiro '68, a columnist for The Real Paper...
...transition period, to stick with chartered jets for long trips. His desire to send his daughter Amy to a public school in Washington was well received by the largely black population of the capital. But his insistence on carrying his own luggage caused the Washington Star's society columnist, Betty Beale, to carp last week that "if the American people had wanted their President to be a bellhop, they could have found one without all that concern about issues, debates, etc." When Carter said he would like to walk to the White House for a meeting with Gerald Ford...
Geisel had apparently won his gamble for a mandate-namely, a majority vote for ARENA candidates-but not by the margin he sought. As Columnist Carlos Castello Branco wrote in Jornal do Brasil, "This is a victory with the flavor of defeat." As expected, ARENA candidates won in Brazil's rural backlands, but MDB swept five of Brazil's largest cities by substantial margins...