Word: ruth
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...Wall Street Journal, Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature Ruth R. Wisse, a Bush contributor, criticized the “scandalous uniformity” of academia’s “liberal-left hegemony.” Wisse wrote that some conservatives find this political environment to be “repressive...
...roof—or from the contrast between this and the spaciousness of the homes Vera cleans. An abiding atmosphere of tension contributes equally. Relations with Vera’s in-laws are clearly strained, and the audience’s knowledge that Vera’s friend Lily (Ruth Sheen) is using her makes the subtle drama bubble until the dramatic push toward an inevitable climax causes it to boil over...
...much as anyone else. As 84 year-old Johnny Pesky, who has been a part of franchise since 1939, walked through the stadium fans hugged him and thanked him. Was he ever so revered as a player? On this night he might as well have beaten Babe Ruth?s homerun record. ?This is for my father and stepfather and all those guys who kept watching,? said Bob McCauley, 54, who had traveled from South Boston to see his team win. ?I was seventeen in 1967 and the loss to the Cardinals in the World Series was killer...
...spicy meatball. Weighing in at a positively caloric 2.3 kg and 1,056 pages, this doorstop of a tome aims, in the words of editor Ruth Reichl, to be "a book that wants to live in your kitchen." For the most part, it succeeds: this is the sort of cookbook you want by your side whether you're attempting cucumber sandwiches...
...seems, at the very least, far less awkward than any character in his films. After exploring the unlikable, self-tortured inhabitants of his hometown of Omaha in Citizen Ruth, Election and About Schmidt, Payne, 43, has moved on to unlikable, self-tortured Californians. In his latest film, Sideways, opening Friday, the director and his longtime writing partner Jim Taylor turned a novel by Rex Pickett into a quirky movie about a failed writer and a C-list actor who go on a weeklong wine-tasting bachelor party through the vineyards near Santa Barbara. Paul Giamatti plays the novelist...