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...would defend The Bell Curve, a controversial new book coauthored by the late Harvard professor Richard Herrnstein that suggests (among other things) that race and intellectual ability are somehow genetically linked. Rather than attack the questionable research and logic underlying The Bell Curve, however, Clarke resorted to bigotry, pure and simple, to reach the opposite conclusion...
Olive is talentless and threatens to ruin what Shayne considers his very own pure piece of art. The rest of the play's cast, however, is superb, including the fabulous (albeit aging and gargantuanly self-obsessed) Broadway superstar Helen Sinclair (Dianne Wiest), as well as Warner Purcell (Jim Broadbent, of "Enchanted April") and Eden Brent (Tracey Ullman). Moreover, this is a chance to direct his own play on Broadway, and Shayne accepts the compromise...
...wasn't art, it was pure obscenity," Walsh said yesterday, defending his actions. "These objects were purchased by [Evers]. They were not sculpted or crafted...
...comes down to money and greed, pure and simple," says Paul Much, senior managing director of the firm Houlihan, Lokey, Howard & Zukin, which counsels investors on opportunities such as sports. "This is about who gets a bigger share of the pie." The owners have deluded themselves into thinking the players should happily assist them in that redistribution, which violates human nature as well as labor history. Leigh Steinberg, perhaps the most powerful individual agent in professional sports, with some 150 clients under contract, agrees, "These sports are showing an incredible amount of self- destruction. This is a golden opportunity squandered...
...context, this remark sounds critical of his parents, but that is not what Frazier means at all. It is rare in contemporary writing to come across the pure love he expresses for the people who raised him: his chemist father, who worked 37 dutiful years for the same Ohio oil company; his schoolteacher mother, who dreamed when young of becoming an actress and who still appeared in amateur theatricals when Frazier was a boy. He once saw her do Lady Macbeth: "I remember especially her lines about snatching the smiling infant from her breast and bashing its brains...