Word: cohen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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News Editor for This Issue: Shari Rudavsky '88 Night Editors: Noam S. Cohen '89 Steve L. Lichtman '88 Shari Rudavsky '88 Photo Editor: Adrienne E. Dominguez '90 Feature Editor: Hector I. Osorio '89 Editorial Editor: Laurie M. Grossman '89 Sports Editors: Mark T. Brazaitis '89 Jennifer M. Frey '90 Geoffrey H. Simon '88 Business Editors: Willa Berghuis '88 Andrew A. Samwick '90 Copy Editor: Seth A. Gitell...
...already been validated by a skit on Saturday Night Live. Last week NBC aired a TV-movie thriller with the sounds- like title Dangerous Affection (originally Hit and Run); for Nov. 30, the network has scheduled a mystery called Fatal Confession (originally Father Dowling). And the title of Larry Cohen's detective movie Love You to Death was changed before release to Deadly Illusion. Perhaps, even at this moment, some literate mogul is optioning the Don Quixote epilogue, in which a man, sure of his wife's fidelity, persuades his best friend to woo her, and the result...
...have said he's gone too far, while the reformers say he's not gone far enough. He's not able to do anything innovative at this point. The speech is an indication that he's had to scale back his plans for reform." Princeton University Political Scientist Stephen Cohen, however, called Gorbachev's performance a "major speech" that "attacked the entire mythology of Stalin." Said Cohen: "Gorbachev showed that he is absolutely defiant, but embattled. He's protecting himself because he's regarded by his critics as a zealot. But he didn't take a step backward...
...Cohen seems to find much glee in his discovery that the Index is "unsparing in its depiction of the folkways of the Midwest." Never mind that he couches glee in his despair. His smugness and "Letterman-esque snidery" are much more apparent. He relates that the Index tells us "40 percent of Iowans have a hard time singing The Star-Spangled Banner.'" The people who compiled the book, as well as its readership, would probably interpret a universal Midwestern knowledge of the national anthem as the mindless nationalism most of them undoubtedly believe is characteristic of the region...
...your geography must be slipping. Consider the following paragraph from Cohen's review, all of which must be quoted to make a point: "And then we return to the heartland. Fifty-seven percent of all Iowans think front porch swings should be brought back.' Asked who they would like to return as should they be brought back in another life, 64 percent said they wouldn't mind coming back as themselves. (The four Boisians who voted for Mr. Potato Head [for mayor] perhaps should reconsider...