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...they're actually electronic signboards. Words and images shoot upward like the flames of bygone furnaces. The Guthrie's exterior walls are covered in dark-blue steel meant to recall grain silos. But the metal is imprinted with images from past Guthrie productions, scenes with great performers like Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy. "There are 'ghosts' on the walls," says Nouvel. "These are the ancestors of the place...
...illustrations, of course, need not be singularly relevant; but they must be there. If 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 you can’t come up with titles, try a few sharp metaphors of your own; they at least...
...have it mean a great deal to anyone who reads it. The generality writer banks on the knowledge possessed by the grader, hoping the marker will read things into his essay.Every non-mathematical field in the University has its own set of vague generalities. For instance:“Hume brought empiricism to its logical extreme.” (Philosophy)“The whole thing boils down to government rights vs. property rights.” (Government)“Moby Dick is written on three levels.” (English)“The Holy Roman Empire...
...Snow will work at his Fairfax County home next week, and take over on May 8. One of his first acts was to give an exclusive interview to Fox News on Wednesday night, and Washington managing editor Brit Hume, a former ABC News White House correspondent, asked if he anticipated or hoped to be liked by the press corps...
...Talking to Hume, Snow did not back away from anything in particular, and tried out an easygoing but unyielding style. "There are probably a lot of people in the press room who from time to time say, I wish I hadn't written or said that," he said. "Here's the key. When I will be giving advice to the President, it will be my advice. And if I have differing opinions with some people, I will express them. But on the other hand, the job as press secretary is not to come in as a surrogate President...