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...Duluth Arena where over 5000 people once yelled my name, where the scoreboard flashed obnoxious messages about me. Where people spell "Wurf" correctly on the very first...
...expanding crisis: a Teapot Dome, say, or Bay of Pigs. Nor is the problem merely a linguistic one. Just what name the affair acquires may influence how it is viewed by the American public. A scandal dubbed, say, Ayatullahgate or Mullahmess will be hard to take seriously, much less spell correctly. On the other hand, a silly name could offer some welcome comic relief in what might become an increasingly grim affair...
...local cuisines and the locals who make them: "In Greensboro they were talking rice and gravy but I didn't know it because in the Carolinas nobody calls rice 'rice.' Down in Charleston they call it 'perlew' and up in Greensboro they call it 'pie-low' and cook books spell it 'pilau,' to mean 'rice pilaf.' " In Wisconsin, she finds that orange whitefish roe is dyed black and processed into caviar primarily for the Japanese market. She gives us a glimpse of Indian salmon ceremonies in the Northwest that include a song beginning "Thank you Swimmer, you Supernatural One, that...
When in Three Sisters Olga, Masha and Irina yearn for Moscow, they echo the youthful Chekhov. He fell under the city's spell while attending medical school, where none of his fellow students connected him with "Antosha Chekhonte," the pseudonym under which he wrote comic stories. It was not until 1887, with the staging of his play Ivanov, that the public knew the author as A.P. Chekhov. Reviewers were generally hostile; "a flippantly cynical piece of foolishness, foul and immoral," said the man from the Muscovite Newssheet. But with the appearance of the story The Steppe in 1888, Chekhov...
...only did the victory qualify Harvard for the Atlantic Coast Championships on the weekend of November 8 at New York, but it also ended a 25-year dry spell for the Schell Trophy...