Word: beavisism
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No. Yes. Crooked-straight. This is all a bit Delphic, even coming from someone who is widely acclaimed by his peers--at least for publication--as a visionary. To have a conversation with the man himself is to be instructed in the art of seeing both sides of an equation...
Yet David Foster Wallace's marathon send-up of humanism at the end of its tether is worth the effort. There is generous intelligence and authentic passion on every page, even the overwritten ones in which the author seems to have had a fit of graphomania. Wallace is definitely out...
In spite of my elaborate fantasies, however, I will be spending Valentine's night on a long-distance phone call, not a Datamatch date. No doubt to the great chagrin of the ten men out there on whose lists my name appears, I did my own unofficial data match about...
Much of the nation was not just dismayed but calling for action. As Kaufman lay in a hospital with burns over 80% of his body, the Money Train incident reignited a debate about whether violence on the screen inspires the real thing. It's a debate that crops up regularly...
Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature Gregory Nagy and his wife Olga Davidson served as emcees, performing as Beavis and Butthead.