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...margins. In the interests of students, the Norton Anthology has also steered clear of academic one-upmanship, Greenblatt said. No other anthology has been able to compete commercially with the Norton, he said, in part because competitors have tended to focus on “a very highfalutin text in which professors were trying to impress other professors.” After collaborating with Abrams on the past two editions of the Norton, Greenblatt is now assuming the full editorship. Abrams said that Greenblatt, who is also the editor of “The Norton Shakespeare...
...Quite so," Buckwheat chimed in. "Why would anyone throw around highfalutin' phrases like 'Pan African Communications Behaviors' unless they were trying to bamboozle the government into financing a bilingual education program for ghetto kids...
Breathy, blond Chloe; bitter, tweed-wearing Emily; and bland spinster Betty: that's a sample of the personas that former New York Times restaurant critic Reichl inhabited in her quest to remain anonymous to Manhattan's foodie establishment as she reviewed her way through highfalutin four-star eateries and dingy Japanese noodle shops. But this tasty (forgive me) chronicle of disguise--sentimental and hilarious--also conveys the sheer delight that people feel when sinking their teeth into a truly memorable meal...
...land between popular and literary fiction is fertile, but it can be perilous. Lethem is no stranger to it. He won the 1999 National Book Critics Circle Award for Motherless Brooklyn, which is basically a hard-boiled mystery retrofitted with great writing and highfalutin themes. Most of the stories in Men and Cartoons play in the nerdier realms of comic books and science fiction--one revolves around a mysterious aerosol spray that reveals lost belongings and lost lovers; another recounts the sad, seedy later life of a retired comic-book hero named Super Goat Man. But while Chabon builds...
Pierce Brosnan has decided that the highfalutin complexity of his recent James Bond yarns has just gone...