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Hirsch proposes to recover what has been lost: a set of common references. "The more computers we have," he maintains, "the more we need shared fairy tales, Greek myths, historical images, and so on." The reason for this seeming paradox is that "if we do not achieve a literate society...
Whenever these diversionary tales threaten to get interesting, the She-rat interrupts with further animadversions against Homo sapiens. The narrator complains, "Her talk, that nasal piping, grumbling, muttering, went on and on." Indeed it does, drowning everything, including patience, in a sea of recrimination and invective. The preachiness of The...
Astaire also observed that it was time for a dancer to exploit the movies' capacity for intimacy rather than spectacle. In the nine films he made with Ginger Rogers between 1933 and 1939, most of their great numbers were not performed on a stage. Shot full figure in long takes...
Benn's story, that of a comfortably aging man pulled into the muck of life by an avid and avaricious young wife, was hilarious when Chaucer included it in The Canterbury Tales, and it still seems none the worse for wear. Bellow's contribution to this hoary tale lies in...
Reagan claims exemption from the Boland amendment amid new tales of seeming violation. -- Parents try to restrict violent videos.