Word: chalktalk
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...improve upon the hermeneutics of chalktalk pundits and initiate pro football in a richer obscurantism. The thoughtful spectator will see the players as nodes through which institutionalized power relations are transmitted. From the flip of the coin, the stark binary "Either/Or" ("heads" or "tails") introduces us to a divided universe (kick off or receive? offense or defense?), a jockstrap yin-yang played out in a temporal dynamic of four quarters in a cycle of Sundays that recapitulates Vico...or is it Ibn Khaldun? I forget...
...might hope. In Rehearsal, Fellini is so enthralled by his polemic that he forgets to let his imagination take flight. A film that should have been his equivalent to Godard's Weekend or Wertmuller's Love and Anarchy is instead a pedantic, if playfully illustrated, ideological chalktalk...
Still, a complaint must be made. Obviously Cooke assumes that his readers have no solid grasp of U.S. history. In this he is certainly correct. His solution, though, is to cover the whole subject in a chalktalk. This he might have done, and usefully, but not in a 400-page book. Among the subjects not mentioned are the Spanish-American War, the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti, the building of the Erie Canal, the suffragettes, baseball, universal secondary education and the establishment of the land-grant colleges, the writing of Thoreau, Melville, Twain, O'Neill, Faulkner, Fitzgerald and Hemingway...
Valpey rates Stanford among the top 15 teams in the country. It could be a long, long ride back from Stanford; if it is not to be so, a lot of organizing and movies and chalktalk will have to pay off before September...
Wisecrackly tale, told in a peculiar adaptation of the football chalktalk, presenting an Ohio manufacturing family as the profit-and-lost generation...
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