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...bodyguard to Muhammed Ali. As Lang, he presents a determined and fearsome opponent. And Mr. T displays confidence and wit. Asked by a reporter whether he hates Rocky, he responds, "No, I don't hate Balboa." He pauses, turns towards the camera and drawls. "But I pity the fool...
Alfred Hitchcock mastered this effect: a fool acts huffy in a dangerous situation (a battle, an ambush). He protests the noise and inconvenience while the bullets pop around him, and the audience chuckles at his posturing. Then suddenly this character is shot; in The Lady Vanishes (1938) he examines the blood from his own wound. All at once the audience is not laughing any more. It realizes that what seemed hilarious a moment ago was never really funny in the first place because the context was not funny, because nothing can ever be funny when death is possible. To bring...
...reading, or worse, the man superseded by Kurt Vonnegut on the course lists. Too many generations came to regard him as a chill, gnomic bore, the best of American aphorists, no doubt, but also the most relentless ("A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds," "Traveling is a fool's paradise," "... fired the shot heard round the world," and even the 1960s' dreamy license, "Do your thing"). His fatally worthy subjects (Self-Reliance, Prudence, Friendship) have oppressed generations of eighth-grade English classes. People should probably be forbidden the use of Emerson until their 30th birthday...
...made a lot of mistakes against Yale the first time," said Coach Carole Kleinfelder after the game. "This time we changed some things. We dropped into a zone on defense which made a big difference and on offense, we didn't fool around. We really played hard on the attack...
PRINCETON, N J--On April Fool's Day--coincidentally, the due date for Comparative Literature theses--three extra mysterious theses-- were placed in the mailbox of David Quint, a Princeton professor of Comparative Literature, a half hour before the deadline...