Word: spokes
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...members of that generation was to nostalgize pop culture and their own innocent response to it. On the other hand, it was hard not to feel betrayed by the tinniness of what they had played on their toy record players, the empty sensations they had caught on TV. Kaufman spoke both to the treasured remnants of their naivete and to their angry sense of betrayal...
According to a recent profile of Kaufman in the New Yorker by Julie Hecht, who hung out with him in those days, he spoke about killing himself on television, which would have been, for him, the perfect summarizing gesture. Probably he was kidding. But his self-destructive and endlessly confrontational relationship with networks, concert managers and audiences was the great theme of his career. He was always disconcertingly catching everyone between laughter and outrage. And the cookies-and-milk treat he sometimes offered later never quite healed that ambiguity. Man on the Moon doesn't either. It just gives...
...kills--Dickie, Dickie's pal Freddie Miles, an American art lover, a bunch of mafiosi--as much for the game of eluding capture as for motives of profit or survival. In Ripley's Game he gets an ailing man involved in a murder plot only because the man once spoke abruptly to Tom. Then, when the man desperately tries to kill a Mafia goon, who shows up to help but Ripley? Good deeds or bad, they're just caprices for a gentleman rogue...
Robert La Tremouille was the only speaker who spoke against the ordinance, arguing that one section should be amended. If passed as is, La Tremouille said, the ordinance would eliminate the current protection against new signs in residential East Harvard Square...
Weinberg Professor of Architectural History Christine Smith spoke on the changes in architectural style in the 10th and 11th centuries, but noted there was very little such change between the years...