Word: interview
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Obviously, Jackie Mason has nothing to prove anymore. Recently, he's been letting his mouth motor along completely unrestrained: "Clinton would just as easily kill as Hitler would. He has no conscience," he said in a recent interview without explaining himself. As a result, the press has labelled him an "equal opportunity offender," a title he doesn't seem to mind. In Much Ado About Everything, he doesn't give a hoot about political correctness or being temporarily offensive, as long as it produces the all-important laugh...
...becomes evident just how fascinated Rice is by her subject. Rice bestows upon her novel one of the most complimentary gifts any writer can give--an image-rich setting. Couched in the velvet, vibrance and vixens of medieval Constantinople and Venice, Armand continues the vampire exposition that began with Interview with the Vampire. Figuring to a small degree in Interview (whose later film spawned my eighth-grade obsession with Brad Pitt) was Armand, the head of the Paris coven of vampires. How was it that Armand rose to such otherworldly prominence? Armand relates its title character's rise from slavery...
...Evolution of Jane. The existential questioning of the protagonist, Jane Barlow Schwartz, is based on Charles Darwin's Origin of Species. With the additional layering and listing of the names of famous thinkers such as Freud, Marx and Nietzsche, Schine sets out to prove, as she stated in an interview, that she "is a pseudo-intellectual. And [she's] really good...
...Handbook for Students offers no specific governing regulations for such cases. Though a Harvard student's unpopular speech will never incur a disciplinary response, Epps (in an interview) and former Harvard President Derek C. Bok (in a speech) have acknowledged that offensive speech might prompt an informal response on the part of an administrator...
...interview, Silverglate questioned the chilling effect Harvard administrators' informal involvement in these cases may have, especially for the student who perceives an administrator's persuasion as an implied threat of discipline. Bok's reply to such criticism, articulated in his 1984 "Open Letter to the Harvard Community" on free speech, is that the "possibility [of an inhibitory effect] is not sufficient to outweigh the need for officials to speak out on matters of significance to the community...