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Several months ago, Dartboard got wind of J.D. Salinger's plans to publish a new book. We were suspicious: why had the reclusive writer decided to publish for the first time in more than thirty years? Literary junkies that we are, we couldnt resist trying to track down more information for our near-barren Salinger file...

Author: By Dan S. Aibel, | Title: THE SALINGER FILE | 3/8/1997 | See Source »

...self-conscious? Why couldnt they play it straight? Light opera is supposed to be foolish--the audience will discover that on its own. The characters aren't supposed to be realistic. But they have to appear to think they are. A deadpan is much funnier than a smirk...

Author: By Harrison Young, | Title: The Barber of Seville | 3/26/1965 | See Source »

...family and it ended in death for me. You take big people as the President, Governors, judge, their children dont never have to suffer. They has plenty of money. . . . The penitentiary all over the United States are fulp of people ho was pore tried to work and have something, couldnt so that maid them steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chances | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

...Jones had the same feeling but being a he-man he wasnt going to begin to cry so he tryed to comfort his wife but he couldnt do it for the simple reason that he felt the same way himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Drivel Racket | 4/17/1933 | See Source »

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