Word: derlying
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...reason, of course, is that E-mail is not like ordinary writing. "You need to think of this as 'written speech,' " says Gerard Van der Leun, a literary agent based in Westport, Connecticut, who has emerged as one of the pre-eminent stylists on the Net. "These things are little more considered than coffeehouse talk and a lot less considered than a letter. They're not to have and hold; they're to fire and forget." Many online postings are composed "live" with the clock ticking, using rudimentary word processors on computer systems that charge by the minute...
From the day in late 1942 when Spike Jones & His City Slickers stormed the charts with Der Feuhrer's Face, they were the official naughty boys of music. They slowed down when Musicians Union boss James V. Petrillo imposed a two- year ban on union members' making records, but they hit the top spot in late '44, when their impudent version of Cocktails for Two sold two million records. Four years later, the holiday jape All I Want for Christmas (My Two Front Teeth) sold 1.5 million copies in six weeks. Jones cinched his renown with a high-rated radio...
...seven female graduate students in the archaeology wing of the Anthropology Department go public with sexual harassment charges against Clay Professor of Scientific Archaeology Nikolaas J. Van der Merwe, claiming he made sexually explicit jokes. Van der Merwer denies the charges...
...Thanks to her supple, dulcet soprano and winning stage personality -- and with the powerful patronage of Met artistic director James Levine -- she has risen to worldwide fame in secondary roles that ordinarily do not make stars, parts like Zerlina in Mozart's Don Giovanni and Sophie in Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier. Battle's presence in a cast or with an orchestra practically guarantees a sold-out house; her albums, whether art songs or spirituals, are consistent best sellers...
Unfortunately, the tawdry sex farce has the possibility of becoming a full-fledged tragedy. If the allegations against van der Merwe are true, the University has the power to secretly enforce severe disciplinary measures...