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...title and written explication--"Georgian silver spoon drawn to the height of Niagara Falls." Likewise, Measuring Liberty with a Dollar, made of a silver dollar drawn into a wire the height of the Statue of Liberty, is not primarily a visual experience. If we didn't have Parker's clever titles and explanations, one work might easily be cast aside as a messy tangle of wire, while the other, neatly coiled, has only some nice, simple formal qualities...
Ralph Schoenstein, the author of "You Can't Be Serious--Writing and Living American History" wrote a clever piece for The Boston Globe highlighting some of the better quotes from the newly-released tape recordings of former president Richard M. Nixon during Watergate and reminding us how the more things change, the more they stay the same. Quoting one of Nixon's exchanges with White House counsel John Dean, Schoenstein points out the Clintonian ring to the president's speech. "They'll hang us," Dean says. "It depends what you mean by hang," Nixon replies...
...While clever in its obscurity, Section 6001 is not an especially big giveaway by Capitol Hill standards. Rather, it is typical among the growing litany of examples of how Washington extends favorable treatment to one set of citizens at the expense of another. It's a process that frequently causes serious, sometimes fatal economic harm to unwary individuals and businesses that...
...clever pranksters at the Lampoon have held The Harvard Crimson's chair hostage in Iceland for approximately
...sneaky devotees desperately hoping to glean information through questions such as, "Which high school did you go to?" or "What is your concentration?"--simply hoping to discern Portman's address without directly saying the P-word. Others pretend to be prefrosh with eager questions about attending Harvard or some clever lovers "mistakenly" chose Portman as a random e-mail confidante...