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...Note the plural. Chase is the undisputed boss of The Sopranos, and its origins are highly personal. He says he based Tony Soprano's crafty, malevolent mother Livia (Nancy Marchand) on his own, now deceased mother. Yet this seamless series--more like a continuous movie--is the work of eight writers, including Chase, working from story arcs that he sketches each season. One of the writers, actor Michael Imperioli, not only is an accomplished screenwriter (Summer of Sam) but also plays a Soprano soldier who dreams of writing movies. Imperioli gave Chase a script on spec last season...
...many of its troops are semiliterate. The country's strategic nuclear arsenal is 300 times as small as that of the U.S. The entire arsenal packs about as much explosive power as what the U.S. stuffs into one Trident submarine. China's ballistic-missile sub (singular, not plural) hasn't been to sea for a year and would be sunk in minutes in a battle with a U.S. attack sub. The People's Republic has no aircraft carriers (the U.S. maintains 11 carrier battle groups), no long-range strategic bombers (the U.S. has 174) and funds this stumbling juggernaut with...
CAMERON WEST, who claims to have 24 personalities, is vague on many details of his life, but he knows exactly how much he has been paid for his story. West, 43, received a $110,000 advance from Hyperion for his new book, First Person Plural: My Life as a Multiple, and screen rights have been sold for $1.15 million. West says his numerous personalities, whom he refers to as "my guys," are the result of severe sexual abuse as a child; they include a six-year-old named MOZART, four-year-old twin girls named Anna and Trudi...
...Diversity-speak is seductive, but its "happy multiculturalism" often anaesthetizes the more dangerous implications of a plural society and overlooks the sly maneuvers of a University administration that is more concerned with appearances than with addressing substantial minority (and non-minority) student concerns. At the risk of offending some of the very people whose interests we hope to support, we'd like to offer a new interpretation of Cultural Rhythms...
Diversity-speak is seductive, but its "happy multiculturalism" often anaesthetizes the more dangerous implications of a plural society and overlooks the sly maneuvers of a University administration that is more concerned with appearances than with addressing substantial minority (and non-minority) student concerns. At the risk of offending some of the very people whose interests we hope to support, we'd like to offer a new interpretation of Cultural Rhythms...