Word: talese
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The myth is simple and satisfying: genius labors long and hard, achieves brilliant success, wins Nobel Prize, basks in glory. But prizewinners' stories are rarely so straightforward. This year's controversial Peace Prize, for example, which was shared by Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, has triggered as much...
At 44, Becker is more preoccupied than ever with the inner-most matters of the heart. Most of his songs, like the sharp blues workout Cringemaker and the lithe My Waterloo, plumb tales of love gone sour. Even though Becker's melodies sometime seem stark and his voice is a...
What Steve has instead is awful, desperate Al (Brooks is, of course, a peerless portrayer of all the great American falsities -- piety, humility and the good cheer with which we habitually mask desperation). Steve also has his own violent innocence, which tests the limits of Al's smarminess hilariously. The...
He's not the only one. The Times' Frank Rich has called O.J. "a self-perpetuating cultural industry, with tentacles reaching into every branch of show biz." Where there is show-biz, there are bound to be glitter-seekers. A woman who lied about seeing O.J. at the murder scene...
With the Quad as it was first conceived, such divisions would be plastered over. The Freshman Union would be renovated, and everyone would be happy. Folklore and Mythology could swap tales with Women's Studies. Classics professors could find out what they had in common with their colleagues in Afro...