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...symbol is entirely arbitrary. For the record, Andre the Giant, born Andre Rene Roussimoff in France, stood 7'4" and over 500 lbs. Besides a laudable wrestling career, he also starred in such memorable roles as Fezzik in "The Princess Bride." A man of few words, his size, novelty, and appearance in cult films nevertheless made him a cult figure. The idea of a posse was borrowed from the skateboarding culture Fairey was active in at the time...
...young man looks up at the princess, who is in the stands beside her father. She surreptitiously and urgently signals the young man to choose the door on the right. He does so. He opens the door...
...Here is the riddle: Did the barbaric princess urge her lover to choose the door leading to marriage to a beautiful young woman of whom the princess was already jealous? Or did she direct him to choose the tiger, and his own death...
...Schlesinger Jr.'s new memoir, "A Life in the Twentieth Century." Schlesinger says that the game of The Lady or the Tiger became widely popular when Stockton proposed it more than a century ago. The poet Robert Browning announced that he "had no hesitation in supposing that such a princess under such circumstances would direct her lover to the tiger's door...
...other hand, the public psychology can be attuned to the lowest note on the scale almost indefinitely. Did the public psychology ever get tired of the O. J. Simpson case, for example? Or of postmortem programming about Princess Diana and John Kennedy Jr.? In fact, the decade of the '90s, by a weird dispensation of the gods of media, poured forth a procession of such operas - not the lowest notes always, but, in any case, huge performances, one after another, starting with the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings and rolling on through tragedies like Oklahoma City and Colombine, geopolitical soap...