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...Among the patrons in theater lobbies each summer, the prevailing accent is (accents are) American. I always figured they came over to hear how the language ought to be spoken; the English are so good at English. These days, it's heard more and more on the stage, emerging from the wisecracking mouths of some pretty nasty, venal or certifiably nutso characters. A team at the National is attempting a blend of the racy, rickety newspaper comedy "The Front Page" and its gender-switched movie version, the sublime "His Girl Friday." (This new version, by John Guare, keeps too much...
...This last sentence should be spoken as if this explains everything,” the instructions read...
Unlike speech, which any developmentally intact child will eventually pick up by imitating others who speak, reading must be actively taught. That makes sense from an evolutionary point of view. Linguists believe that the spoken word is 50,000 to 100,000 years old. But the written word--and therefore the possibility of reading--has probably been around for no more than 5,000 years. "That's not long enough for our brains to evolve certain regions for just that purpose," says Guinevere Eden, a professor of pediatrics at Georgetown University in Washington, who also uses brain scans to study...
...nine doubt that Mayhugh got it right. Says miner Dennis Hall: "Some things Blaine said, I don't believe." Fogle, in his even-tempered way, suggests his comments in the cave were misreported: "It's changed a lot from what I did say." He had indeed spoken to management about leaving the area because of water, he says--not the millions of gallons in the abandoned mine but increasing amounts of groundwater. "I wanted to move off because it was slowing us down, and not really that it was a danger...
Profitable for more than a year, Anatomical Travelogue has tripled sales for the past three years, to about $10 million. And Tsiaras has an ambitious plan for the future: "We're slowly beginning to take over the market for medical information on every disease," he says. Spoken like a confident monk. --By Jyoti Thottam/New York