Word: means
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...guide for this trip (and I do mean trip) through history and literature is the eminent 19th-century translator of Russian literature Constance Garnett, whose unrelenting Englishness (read: priggishness) has been a scourge to modern translators from Nabokov on. Fashioned by Durang as a kind of Charles Kinbote for the entire Western cannon, Garnett is as much a mangler of Russian literature as a scholar of it. (The Russian word for frustrated homosexual is Peter Tchaikovsky, she says). Played with unrelenting and downright hysterical formality by Thomas Derrah, Garnett becomes as loveable as she is overbearing. Listening to her roll...
...some allies on the Security Council -Russia, France and China, which abstained from Friday's vote. "The U.S. wants to keep sanctions in the belief that they're essential to overthrowing Saddam," says Dowell. "But the French believe sanctions are destroying the fabric of Iraqi society, which could mean that after Saddam there'll either be another despot or else Iraq will break up into an endless civil war situation, like Lebanon...
...Arden: I know, I mean, "Of course you weren't!" I've been a dork my whole life, and I've never wanted to be anything else. I don't understand this desire to be a bad-ass. There are people who have walked past me, and apparently they are so cool, they don't say hello. I mean, if you say hello, they do not say hello back. And I sort of stand there and say, "What the fuck is going...
...Kamil: That is so mean...
...junior and it was kind of like my rebirth at Harvard in a lot of ways...It just reminded me how much joy kids have--how being with kids just centers your life because you remember how there used to be more important things than exams. I mean, I go work with 10- and 11-year-olds twice a week, and they have their issues, but they don't know this world, so it helps me keep my sanity...