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...course of five deafening minutes--to parallel park in the spot right next to Amis' sidewalk table. Amis, 54, observes the scene coolly, a small, neat man, the picture of amused British resignation. If nothing else, he can take satisfaction in the fact that the whole scene, a cosmic conjunction of petty annoyances, is quintessentially Amis-esque...
...Bolshevik Revolution, holding high office themselves, and exploring the new techniques of photography, film and high-speed presses - who conjured up the images. The show begins with early esoteric work like Kliment Redko's 1924 Uprising, a black and flaming red square-within-a-square symbolizing the cosmic force of the Bolshevik Revolution. But by the late 1920s, the Left Front movement, which included filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, had turned to a more accessible and representational art. Before long, Gustav Klutsis and Alexander Gerasimov had perfected the stiffly staged portraits - as reverential as old Russian icons - that mythologized Lenin and glorified...
...part, MCI has been fighting back with a campaign that included running newspaper ads about its internal reforms-in papers sure to be read by decision makers. ?MCI: We've Only Just Begun,? read the tagline. It must have been some kind of cosmic joke that one of the ads ran opposite a news story in the Washington Post about the fresh allegations that MCI illegally rerouted its calls. Other probes by congressional committees and the FCC are in the works. Meanwhile a hearing on the firm?s bankruptcy reorganization plan has been postponed until early September...
...third suggestion, the Overpowering Assumption, I think is best. But not for the reasons he suggests—that the assumption is so cosmic that it might be accepted. It is rarely “accepted;” we aren’t here to accept or reject—we’re here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course—and we all like...
There is a third method of dealing with examination questions—that is by the use of overpowering assumption, an assumption so cosmic that it is sometimes accepted. For example, we wrote that it was pretty obvious that the vague generality was the key device in any discussion of examination writing. Why is it obvious? As a matter of fact, it wasn’t obvious at all, but just an arbitrary point from which to start. This is an example of an unwarranted assumption...