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...pass up the opportunity to bash the council. (at least for the whole column). Not that I doubt the veracity of the various reports on their total and utter incompetence; the dirt that has found its way into the press is, I'm sure, just the tip of the duncecap...

Author: By David L. Bosco, | Title: Reform? Who Cares? | 6/7/1994 | See Source »

There are a lot of lines that sound like poetry in Vladimir Mayakovsky: A Tragedy, but it's hard to identify them for sure because they don't have much of a context. "All these people here are mere bells on the duncecap of God," remarks one character (the parts are pretty much interchangeable, as near as I could tell, except for the impressive individualization the Cambridge Ensemble occasionally imposes on the writing). The others, as they often do, chime in with repetitions of important questions which no one ever attempts to answer. There's been no previous mention...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: Bells, Duncecaps and God | 11/3/1973 | See Source »

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