Word: mumming
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...mum used to be my dad, snip, snip" and "I used to be a preoperative transsexual" are not lines usually found in grand opera. But they are sung in a delicate staccato fugue, by soaring sopranos and firm baritones, in the most talked-about new show in London. High culture meets the dumbed-down dregs of television in Jerry Springer--The Opera, which opens this week at London's Royal National Theater...
Speaking at the Askwith Forum at the Graduate School of Education, Pinker denied the possibility of poet Philip Larkin’s well-known adage that your parents “f--- you up, your mum and dad / They may not mean to but they do”—a passage he quoted, to the delight of the crowd...
...move that would have been unthinkable a decade ago but in the current climate has been popular. Justice Minister Michael McDowell declared he was "not afraid of the bang of a crosier," and said the church's internal canon law, which it has sometimes relied upon to justify keeping mum about predator priests, deserved as much deference as the rules of a golf club. Connell is unlikely to resign. His friends say he may be old school, but feels every error is being transmogrified into a cover-up, and looks forward to clearing his name in an inquiry. Meanwhile, regardless...
...mixed message has many in the region suspecting that the Dear Leader is once again launching a bellicose negotiating gambit. Indeed, it's far from clear what North Korea intended by revealing its nuclear program and what offers might have accompanied the news, and U.S. diplomats are keeping mum...
...better question is "Why wait?" Those wishing to liberate Iraq, uphold the United Nations' integrity and preclude the specter of Saddam Hussein's getting nuclear (on top of more chemical and biological) weapons lost momentum last summer. After his glorious State of the Union address, President Bush went mum. While momentum for action slid, dangers rose. In Iraq, Saddam surely expanded his arsenals of weapons of mass destruction. Should a catastrophic attack on the U.S. occur and be traced to Iraqi-made weapons, the Bush presidency would be tossed on the ash heap of history...