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...word choice reminds me of the last time I heard the word "pluck." It was in that cinematic classic "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," when a nurse visits the Bueller household to cheer up the allegedly sick Ferris...
...writing a column for TIME and want to demonstrate what a lame novelist Robert James Waller is. Easy, in every sense. I get a copy of Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend (which is published by Time Warner), pluck out a piece of lazy prose, and print it here: "A monkey called, sounding far and lonesome. The classic jungle sound from old Tarzan movies." Or I could go a step further and mimic Waller, as Billy Frolick does in his new book-length parody, The Ditches of Edison County ("Concave's scream echoed through the canyons and ditches of Edison County...
...commentator on TV and want to demonstrate what a dreadful sitcom Cafe Americain is, or how sappy Barbara Walters' interviews are, or the creepiness of Michael Jackson's music videos. Could I turn on the VCR, pluck out some telling snippets, then use those clips as video "quotes" to illustrate my criticisms? No, I could not, as I discovered firsthand, again and again, in the course of producing three specials for two different networks between 1990 and 1992. Although fair use theoretically applies to television just as it does to magazines and newspapers, as a practical matter it exists intermittently...
...Bears. 10 Brookline St., Cambridge. 492-BEAR. Pluck Theatre on Thursday, Nov. 11. Hi-Hats on Friday, Nov. 12. Plan Be on Saturday...
...Maya Angelou"), I was prepared for an interview conducted with a secretary in the room and a security guard outside the door. I should have known better. This, after all, was the woman fired from the New York Times for describing a community chicken-killing festival as "a gang-pluck...