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...illustrations, of course, need not be singularly relevant; but they must be there. If we Vague Generalities are anathema, sparkling chips of concrete scattered throughout your bluebook will have you up for sainthood. Or at least Dean's List. Name at least the titles of every other book Hume wrote, don't just say Medieval cathedrals, name nine. Think up a few specific examples of "contemporary decadence," like Natalie Wood. If your can't come up with titles, try a few sharp metaphors of your own; they at least have the solid clink of pseudo-facts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

...Hume brought empiricism to its logical extreme." (Philosophy...

Author: By Donald Carswell, THIS PIECE FIRST RAN ON JUNE 14, 1950. | Title: Beating the System | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

...That and press credentials will get you into The Clinton Coffees, Pts. 1-44 (1997). Just four bucks will get you a coffee movie. But what exactly is a coffee movie? Parallax View was set in Seattle, yet features maybe two cups of the stuff (although one does kill Hume Cronyn). Pam Grier's blaxploitation babe-fest Coffy (1973), despite its many merits, isn't one either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Couch Percolator: Coffee and Cabals | 10/10/1997 | See Source »

...them, Diane Sawyer, could use a window in her contract to jump to CBS, while several others--Jennings, Barbara Walters, Sam Donaldson, Ted Koppel--are getting a little long in the tooth. "It's no secret that there's been a certain malaise at ABC News," says Brit Hume, former chief White House correspondent, who left ABC for Fox News in December. "There's an unmistakable sense of gradual decline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRESS: ABC YA, ROONE | 3/17/1997 | See Source »

...long run the expert in the use of unwarranted assumption comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with our question on Hume not by baffling the grader or by fencing with him but like this: "It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEATING THE SYSTEM | 1/13/1997 | See Source »

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