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...hassle really worth it? Is it worth the press secretaries and out-of-town contractors strutting around as if they own the place? Is it worth the endless sniping by high-brow media executives about the postage-stamp size of our beautiful convention center? Is it worth the hundreds of thousands of hours of effort...
Durang doesn't try to rationalize the paradoxes of his work, which can be at once high-brow and happily vulgar, at once a send-up of the literary canon and an addition to that canon. He acknowledges, too, that there is a double edge to his satire of societal institutions, a vilification belying a genuine disappointment in their failures. The measly contradictions of his plays, says Durang, come naturally and reflect the impulsiveness of his creative process. "I start off with the rules to a particular universe, which are really crack-pot. I just sort of expect people...
...writing, not to report on my niece's appropriate and self-assertive stand, but to note the arcane and condescending behavior on the part of these high-brow relies of antiquity. In this day, where women are achieving so much at Harvard, and in all fields, I feel they should enter front doors throughout the University...
...shop caters to a high-brow audience, stocking "The World's Most Difficult Jigsaw Puzzle," the Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook and numerous videos on art or astronomy on its shelves...
That's close enough for us Montgomery County residents to take advantage of the Kennedy Center, the National Gallery and other venues for high-brow cultural events, yet far enough away to be insulated from some of D.C.'s less appealing features, like the highest murder rate in the nation...