Word: seldom
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Aside from Hollywood producer Don Simpson (Beverly Hills Cop, Top Gun), who says that "Howard Stern and Rush Limbaugh are the only two voices of truth in the media," the same individuals who like and admire Limbaugh are probably very seldom the same individuals who like and admire Stern. But just who are they? And why is each audience so fetched by its man? "All those 20 million people are not some kind of Nazis," Mary Matalin says of her fellow dittoheads. "What's really homogeneous about them is not their party affiliation but their mistrust of those they elect...
...first part of the unhappiness is systemic, for a writing teacher's lot is not always a happy one. Colleges talk a big line about the importance of writing, but they seldom back their commitments with money. Chronically underpaid and overworked, the teachers who take up this cross find themselves scuttling from college to college, sometimes working at two or more jobs at once. For men and women who have put years into getting an advanced degree, the life of an itinerant scholar often comes as a bitter pill. Many of them are trying to make a name for themselves...
...practice -- and this is the great lesson that her fiction has to teach -- Morrison does just the reverse. White authors are seldom praised for "transcending" the whiteness of their characters, and Morrison has demanded, through the undeniable power of her works, to be judged by the same standards. She has insisted upon the particular racial identities of her fictional people -- black women and men under stresses peculiar to them and their station in the U.S. -- because she knows a truth about literature that seems in danger of passing from civilized memory. The best imaginative writing is composed of specifics rather...
Some friends often complain to me about their computer mice, which they find disobedient after five or six months of use: the pointer seldom moves in the direction you want it to go. The source of the problem can often be traced to the dust and dirt that has accumulated inside of the device. So clean your mouse (or trackball) interior often. It's an easy job and it may save you a lot of eye strain or wrist pain...
...decision to spend billions to take over a company is seldom either strictly logical or strictly emotional. There are always spreadsheets to scrutinize, sure, but there's also that extra-rational accumulation of wishful hunches and adrenal instinct that makes people finally just go for it. Since show-business executives are uncommonly sensitive to go-for-it twitches, it would have been weird if a competing bidder had not stepped in to turn the friendly merger of Paramount Communications and Viacom into the high-strung, insanely complicated struggle it became last week...