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...more controlled Idol than to unpredictable live variety. When Richie brought a pair of goats with her to plug her rural reality show, one of the beasts did what well-fed goats do, all over the stage. Another talk host might have improvised a zinger out of the barnyard blooper; Seacrest just seemed icked...
...well. In 1945, while Orwell was away in France, she had surgery to remove uterine tumors and died on the operating table. Orwell was devastated. He set out to raise Richard alone, but proposed marriage to nearly every woman he met. He also finished Animal Farm, a fable about barnyard communism gone wrong that struck a chord in the postwar era. For the first time, he had royalties, though not the health to enjoy them. Lungs hemorrhaging, he embarked on a grand dystopian novel, 1984. When it was published in 1949 to global acclaim, the author was lying...
...stretching the situation somewhat thin to call Monnin’s alleged gesture heroic, or even particularly meaningful. A juvenile pantomime is not the most admirable blow for the forces of democracy, and those who call the incident valuable “dissent” overstate their case. But barnyard gesticulations—especially those denied by the party accused of making them—are no grounds for the rescinding of a leadership award. Etiquette is not leadership, and the Alumni Association would do well to consider whether it wishes to recognize those adult skills possessed by leaders?...
...thesis, Claire W. Lehmann ’03 raises questions about what sort of ideals are represented by mass-produced miniatures like parts of model train sets and cake-decorating figures. In the show, Claire’s charcoal and pastel compositions—one a barnyard scene replete with barn, silo, tractor, cow, pig and rabbits and the other a forest scene with model trees, deer, squirrels and a Boy Scout—are ominously dark and shadowy. The mix of static and lively toy-like figures creates a kind of grotesque fairy-tale scene that is oddly delightful...
...cartoons, starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and a dozen other barnyard thespians, were the star attractions of countless children's Saturday afternoons--and internal lives. But Chuck Jones' Warner Bros. cartoons were more than kid stuff, as we realized long before their creator's death last week, at 89, of congestive heart failure. "We weren't making them for kids or for adults," he often said. "We were making them for ourselves." And, a grateful viewer has to say, for the best part of ourselves...