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The Academie Francaise's much-publicized hysteria over the bastardization of the French language by Americanisms is only the tip of France's long-standing obsession with language. In the 18th-century court portrayed in "Ridicule," the skillful manipulation of language is the sole means of gaining and keeping social...
Rozelle shepherded the league from 12 teams to 28, turned it into a Sunday obsession and guided it to the preeminent position it still holds today -- the nation's No. 1 spectator sport.
From the angle taken by this particular adaptation, the acting is first-rate. One does not tend to think of Ibsen as funny; this production favors a style of self-revelation that continually provokes laughter--and not a few hisses. But the acting, like the characterization, is not reduced to...
In light of the description above, I would like to present my "Hunter-Gatherer Theory" of Harvard classes. In talking classes, the students are hunters. The object of the class is to use one's ideas, words and oratory skills to hunt down and "kill" the ideas and words of...
Like many powerful men who were born poor, Bill Clinton is obsessed with money. The obsession is not about the things it can buy; back when he was a civilian, he bought his suits off the rack at Dillard's in Little Rock, ate cheap, rarely took a vacation. Instead...