Word: isn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think of Duluth as a small town, and by anyone's objective definition--well, anyone who doesn't live in New York City--it isn't. Subconsciously, I characterized Duluth as some kind of ultimate Midwestern boondock and it isn't. Duluth has an airport, regular plane service, modest but established symphony and ballet troupes as well as a fairly sizable university. There are many places much smaller and much further off the beaten track than Duluth...
...THAT, however, isn't fair. When the former governor of the neighboring state recently called the Washington, D.C. government an "Amos and Andy" show, I took offense. I don't think his observation, which was likely motivated by personal bitterness, was constructive; it reflected more about him than it did about the city. That's probably a lot like what Duluthians were thinking when they designed a banner just for me last week: "Nick Wurf is uncouth...
...hear Jardine and Johnson, Suleiman and Phinney know that lit crit is a combination, in its broadest description, of such disparate disciplines as linguistics, philosophy, and traditional literary analysis. And they want to study it because it's interesting and important. It's move than a shame that there isn't enough room for them: there people are there for all the right reasons...
...women should have options and high aspirations. What's wrong with that? They gave her artistic control of the commercial. She got her message across, got some exposure for herself without Fritz looming in the background, and she got a decent corporation to pay for it. After all, Pepsi isn't selling thalidomide...
Wanda: You mean, since he's on the board, he's paid in a different way. What about Ronald Reagan's old ads for Chesterfield cigarettes, General Electric alarm clocks and toasters and wrinkle-free Van Heusen shirts? Isn't he a public figure...