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Merritt formed the Magnetic Fields in 1990, when he was sporadically taking classes at Harvard and writing an astrology column for a Boston gay weekly under the name Madame Cheva. He does not deny that he can be "deliberately unusual." The spelling of his first name comes from an attempt...
In linguistics, they teach you that slang frequently comes from “tabooed words, especially for the ones considered most objectionable.” You can read that on page 231 of Hock and Joseph’s bible of semantic change, Language History, Language Change and Language Relationship...
Some things have changed. Under Director Robert Mueller, who took over the FBI a week before 9/11, the bureau has made counterterrorism one of its top three priorities and tried to get its 11,881 agents to do something they were for years warned against: work proactively. Meanwhile, the bureau...
Sure, people want to leave traces. The simplest of private legacies is the handing down of a family Bible, for example. There are great public legacies--people who may have accumulated a great deal of wealth, and they give a wing on a hospital.
My Son John. (1952) Paranoid fantasy from the McCarthy era stars Helen Hayes and Van Heflin. Dean Jagger hits son John, a suspected Communist, over the head with a Bible in one of the film's more subtle moments. CH.5. 9 p.m. B-W. 2 hrs. 30 min.