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...common with many Kennedy critics who have emerged from hibernation since Brown's announcement, Blaney is especially incensed by a remark the U.S. politician made back in 1971. In that year, Kennedy introduced a Senate resolution demanding the ouster of British military forces from Northern Ireland - or Ulster as the Irish called that part of the island. Said Kennedy: "Ulster is becoming Britain's Vietnam... The conscience of America cannot keep silent when men and women of Ireland are dying. Britain has lost...
...Slightly closer, one finds the Peabody Museum, home to some excellent exhibits of roma bones. Many visitors remark, “Those are a lot of gypsy bones, but they can’t possibly account for the number of gypsies killed during the construction of CGIS by Our Queen Drew Faust.” That would be astute. Those are only the gypsy elites, accordion players, queens, and humor columnists. The mass graves are beneath the Quad...
...Garden, the Paris Opera Ballet and the Maryinsky Theater’s Kirov Ballet.” Whether all the Boston Ballet’s ambitions will be realized or not, this particular performance of “Jewels” was certainly successful, leading one audience member to remark with a note of pride, “The company has come...
...obscenity of the term is integral to its meaning—barely squeezing significance out of the parallels between the words “fucking” and “mindfucking.” A select few of these parallels provide insight into the phenomenon being discussed. McGinn remarks, for example, that among other things the two words share alternating connotations—an example of a “good mindfuck” being a thriller like “The Sixth Sense”—and that “just as we have...
...article also incorrectly stated that Richards said poetry reading with a bit of potty mouth is destined to be “great fun.” In fact, Richards was referring to poetry reading in general and made no mention of foul language in reference to that remark...