Word: courants
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...movie references are not coincidental. Surely Mimi Leder, the director, and screenwriter Leslie Dixon had them in mind. They are, however, of interest largely to students of cliches and their maddening persistence in popular culture. Leder and Dixon are more up to date. Theirs is an epic of au courant abuse and unlikely but inspirational redemption...
...Hartford Courant apologized...
...Mocking Greenwich as "Greenrich" b Not being "courant" in all its spellings c Publishing ads for the sale of slaves in the 18th and 19th centuries d Running Ziggy...
...really filthy campaigning, it is necessary to return to the Founding Fathers. In 1800, John Adams called Alexander Hamilton "an intriguant, the greatest intriguant in the world - a man devoid of every moral principle - a bastard...." If Jefferson should win the election (as of course he did), the Connecticut Courant warned, "Murder, robbery, rape, adultery, and incest will all be openly taught and practiced..." Of course, the vicious campaign rumor that Jefferson had sired several children with his slave Sally Hemings turns out to be true...
...Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it." --Hartford Courant...