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...into print, while true talents get lost in the shuffle. Literature professor and essayist Pierre Jourde - whose scathing treatise, Literature Without Guts, won an award from the Académie Française in June - argues that the overproduction is fueled by a cult of personality and by kid-gloved critics who are often shoddy novelists themselves and thus disinclined to attack falling standards. Other authors, he charges, divert attention from their otherwise unremarkable texts with posturing or controversy. "There are so many new titles and writers we can't take them all, and you often end up taking some...
...It’s certainly changed the way we recruit,” Murphy said. “From the standpoint of emphasizing retention, we absolutely must get serious football players. We just can’t afford to lose a kid once they matriculate to Harvard...
...doubling Carl Morris as they might want to because we have some other people you can get the ball to,” Murphy said. “Rodney scored 92 touchdowns in high school, played very well in the Yale game and is a very tough, athletic, competitive kid...
...yakuza on the House of Blue Leaves set. "I was supposed to die today," he says, "but when Wuma (what the Chinese call Thurman) was about to kill me, the director saw something in my face that made him change his mind." He saw an innocent kid who provided a means of adding a sympathetic layer to The Bride's ruthless character. "I thought, 'There's no way she'd off a kid with a mug like this,'" says Tarantino, cuffing Hu on the shoulder. So he devised a new ending for the scene. Hu becomes the last man standing...
...literally only 5’4—we might put him at 5’7 in the program but that’s generous. But if he were six feet tall, he’d be 235 lbs. He’s just a strapped kid...