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...with the Institute for American Values and is the author of The Abolition of Marriage: How We Destroy Lasting Love, rejects the charge that reforming divorce laws is a hothouse, right-wing issue. "The real reason that public opinion has changed is not because a small group of very clever people have been manipulating it but because as more and more social-science data accumulated, a number of prominent family scholars changed their minds. As more ordinary Americans had actual experience of what happens with a 50% divorce rate, they too became concerned...
...proclaiming the worthlessness of television--if total self-deprecation were the objective, ABC executives would be better off emptying out their offices and heading home. Instead, ABC is playing with the popular perception of TV, trying to capitalize on the public's disparaging attitude by reinforcing it: a semi-clever, though desperate, if-you-can't-beat-them-join-them strategy. Media analyst Barbara Lippert considers the campaign rather cutting-edge. "The trendiest thing," she writes, "is the underlying strategy: to acknowledge that the consumer is so inured to being sold, so over-saturated with media, that the only...
...cast itself is chock-full of dynamic players. Amblad and O'Toole, as Petruchio/the Lord-ette and Hortensio/the first Hunter-ette, respectively, show great versatility as actors in their shift from effeminate pranksters to clever, sophisticated noblemen. Jesse Hawkes's cane-waving, unexpectedly spry Gremio stands out as one of the show's best comic touches, as do the hilarious antics of Grumio (Doug Miller) and Biondello (Andrew Mandel '00, a Crimson editor). Even Tranio, played by Adam Green '99, though not as facially expressive as the rest of the cast, has good comic timing and blends in well with...
...clever performer and a witty lyricist, the man behind the Mountain Goats on his own terms stands as a giant of the bedroom-music scene. No matter that his following bears more resemblance to a secret club than music fans. Or that his set list is a conglomeration of travel itineraries and Latin aphorisms. With a broad smile and a warm hello, the club president is open and welcoming, and his concerts are large circles of friends who are all too eager to invite you into their slightly abnormal lives...
...While [Jeff] was working for me, he was busy getting straight A's in all of his classes. Then, of course, he wrote a summa thesis," Hall said in an e-mail message. "What can I say--he is clever, insightful, creative and insanely responsible...