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...Howard and Goldsman have efficiently touched all the bases. But they haven't found a way to replicate the book's page-turning urgency. The games Brown plays - anagrams, the Fibonacci sequence, the art-history gamesmanship, the delving into Gnostic gospel lore, all the clues and miscues in his devious treasure hunt - are best savored by readers with a long night or a long flight ahead of them. They're not intrinsically visual or movie-dramatic, however many car chases the Howard version cranks...
...fake French ("Garcon, s'il vous plait, / Encore, Chevrolet coupe") and real Yiddish, as when French soldiers sing, "A vous toot dir veh, a vous?" and the nine Supreme Court justices declare, "We're the A.K.'s / Who give the O.K.'s" - A.K.'s meaning alterkockers. (For this lore I thank Alan Abrams, Time's Broadway-musical scholar in residence, who played Wintergreen in summer stock a few years back...
...final numbers of the Dartmouth game. “It’s especially important against Syracuse, a team that has a lot of offense.”No matter what happens on Sunday, though, the opportunity to play against a team with the tradition and the lore of the Orange, on a magnified stage, no less, is one that the players are not taking lightly.“Growing up as a kid watching lacrosse, it’s the biggest stage you can play on,” Cohen said. “As a little...
...year of college, and this woman took me to a ceili. She told me I had to bring a song or a story. I went and was enchanted.” After completing her dissertation in Celtic languages and literatures, Chadbourne looked to teach a course on Irish fairy lore for the Expository Writing program. Expos asked her instead to teach a much broader course on storytelling more generally. Rather than upsetting her plans, this request led Chadbourne to approach the medium differently, and opened up scholarly and creative worlds to her. She considers her ever-changing relationship to academia...
...Bush opposed that model, having learned the lessons of his father's experience with John Sununu perhaps a little too well. The family lore holds that 41 was misserved by Sununu, who often took as hard a line with the President's allies as with his enemies, and many in the party believe that it was George W. Bush who fired him (both myths are a little at odds with the real story). But in any case, the strong chief model was still much in disfavor inside Bushland even by 2000. No strong chief of staff for me, said...