Word: entertainingness
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While the games in which Harvard crushes lesser-skilled squads may not be as big a draw, when the matchups step up a notch, they are exciting and entertaining.
With the advent of the 24-hour cable news channel, the news industry began to digress from serious (albeit occasionally soporific) to bombastic, sensational and disposable. Today’s news is riddled with salacious stories, think O.J. Simpson or Chandra Levy, that are entertaining but utterly irrelevant and inconsequential...
Then, even more audacity. He not only claimed his mandate. He defined it right on the spot. Seizing the third rail of American politics, he promised to reform Social Security with, at minimum, partial privatization. He then added his intention to radically redo the tax code-which includes entertaining such...
Impressively, Seth Mnookin ’94 has turned a New York Times plagiarism scandal into riveting reading for those outside the insular world of journalism. Though the falsification of articles might not seem the stuff of riveting reading, Mnookin’s debut book, Hard News: The Scandals at...
Yet even this statement seemed contrived and a bit overdone. Like the flickering lights, the text is entertaining for the first moment or two, before it becomes too inflated to support its far-too-deliberately-encoded theoretical message about language. It’s as if Evans knows he is...