Word: eponym
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...ways. Students in Quincy House have numerous occasions to invoke their home's namesake. President Josiah, including a colorful and well-attended exorcism ceremony at the beginning of each year. In Mather House, the editors of the student newsletter, the "Concrete Abstract," tip their hat to their domicile's eponym in their motto: "To Increase Mather's Spirit...
...meat of Wedekind's sex tragedies, Earth Spirit and Pandora's Box, has been all but completely lost in Lee Breuer's production of Lulu at the Loeb. Lulu, the angelic witch who seduces men with her blend of whorishness and innocence in the Wedekind plays, has become the eponym for an adaptation by Michael Feingold. Feingold, and the company in rehearsal, have updated the play by translating it to a contemporary landscape. So we get references to the Dalai Lama, Lulu moves on roller skates, Schwartz the painter becomes Carbone the fashion photographer, Rodrigo the acrobat becomes Juan...
...wondered whether he could call himself Hercules. Despite his skinny arms and pathetic inability to lose weight over the course of two decades, Attanasio had always fancied himself a lifter of weights, had put in the hours in the cellar, yeah, pumping with the sump pump. His uncle and eponym, he knew, had once been on the cover of Muscle magazine. So let us follow Hercules as he travels with Arnold...
...GOOD to be true; you knew it. Three years ago everyone was listening to ELO and Jimmy Buffett and all of a sudden there was this guy Elvis Costello singing about the end of the world. Elvis became, like his eponym, the King of Rock and Roll, only now they didn't call it rock and roll, they called it the New Wave. Because it was new--that was what made it great, that somehow from this extraordinarily restricted and limited form, when all the possibilities seemed exhausted, these lunatic geniuses brought forth the rock and roll Lazarus...
...that just happens to precede this one on ABC's Thursday lineup. Carter Country is shrewdly produced too. The cast is good, and the one-liners attack all races and creeds alike. The show does not deserve to be a hit, but, barring a sudden drop in its eponym's fortunes, it is likely to be around for more than one term...