Word: superealism
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...Moussaoui, you came here to be a martyr and die in a big bang of glory. But to paraphrase T.S. Eliot, instead, you will die with a whimper." LEONIE BRINKEMA, U.S. federal judge, sentencing Moussaoui to life in a super-maximum security prison...
...borrowed phrase every 10 pages,” but something much more egregious than that. She has taken the plot, prose, and language from another novel and with no reinvention whatsoever tried to pass them off as her own. Yes, I acknowledge that we live in a super-competitive age, but there are limits to everything. Let’s not forget the new robber barons that have been sentenced and put away for stealing millions from Enron, WorldCom, and other corporations. Great authors make allusions. Ms. Austen did not lift the very language of Anne Radcliffe?...
...Moussaoui, you came here to be a martyr and die in a big bang of glory. But to quote T.S. Eliot, instead, you will die with a whimper." LEONIE BRINKEMA, U.S. federal judge, sentencing Moussaoui to life in a super-maximum security prison...
...Sweet 16 and Spoiled Rotten" [April 24]: MTV's reality show My Super Sweet 16 verges on the nauseating. It is nearly unbearable to witness the whining of greedy teenage girls while their fathers cough up hundreds of thousands of dollars for a single party and a luxury automobile. Is it any wonder the rest of the world hates us? FERN GALPERIN Stamford, Conn...
...often feisty when he?s supposed to be bantering, as when he crosses words with leggy super-mutilator Ann Coulter, or Bill O?Reilly, belligerent host of The O?Reilly Factor on Fox News. Franken?s radio show was originally called The O?Franken Factor, with the simple aim of annoying O?Reilly and provoking a lawsuit from him. It?s a pleasant irony that, for all his importance in lowering the level of TV?s political discourse to barrier reef depths, O?Reilly?s lasting legacy may be that he diverted the careers of two men: one (Al Franken...