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...Tiger” is a retelling of an ancient Chinese tale, complete with intricate martial arts choreography. The specifics of each piece reflect the wide range of disciplines in which all members of the company has trained: pantomime, Decroux’s exacting “grammar for the body,” Marceau’s own modern mime technique, dance, acrobatics, fencing and martial arts...
...conscientious and invested teacher, Davis challenged her students to use language precisely to express themselves. She did not hesitate to criticize famous authors’ grammar even though she never graduated from college. Davis kept a file of grammatical mistakes from newspapers to share with her classes...
...ironic thrill. He holds the house record, 257, at the Pin-Up Bowl in his native St. Louis, but more to the point, he knows no such thing as an ironic thrill. Ever since he became an instant gazillionaire thanks to his 2000 nursery-rhyme hit, Country Grammar, his life has been dedicated to the fulfillment of a Maxim-style populist fantasy: fun, all the time. He owns a massive house by a Missouri lake, a clothing line and a slice of an NBA team, and, if they kept charts on such things, he would easily...
...really confused." Most Germans are just as bewildered about how their written language is changing - which is why a grassroots revolt is trying to save the old ways. Back in 1996, the governments of Germany, Switzerland and Austria agreed on far-reaching reforms meant to simplify the spelling and grammar of their complex common tongue. Educators had argued that the old rules were confusing and contradictory. But the revision - 12,000 new or altered spellings and many grammar changes, which have been taught in most classrooms since 1998 - turned out to be just as bad. The new rules are scheduled...
...readers making quick calculations about my age: my brother is muuuuuuch older than I.) She?s the oldest of four girls who, though born too late to have heard the material firsthand, somehow knew most of the songs of that miracle year, 1957, by the time they were in grammar school. At family gatherings the girls would render old songs in a saucy fashion, occasionally accompanied on the tenor guitar by their doting uncle. Now Beth Corliss is Beth Silvestri, married to an Olympic yachtsman and living in San Francisco. The girl with three sisters now has three daughters: Allie...