Word: thanks
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Thank god for Corliss and his ideas for saving the Oscars. He is right: they do need a change. Right now the show is like the drama-club awards in high school. And nobody wanted to hang out with those kids, cuz they were, like, so weird. The Oscars should totally be a popularity contest, like electing Homecoming Queen. Then, finally, some good movies could win Best Picture. Like Norbit. Or Wild Hogs. Or 300. While you're at it, Mr. Corliss, could you jazz up the presidential race? Who cares about all these debates on stuff nobody understands...
Miriam Kamin is feeling a lot better now, thank you very much...
...driver’s stare in the rearview mirror as I cozy up and prepare for the return. Nonstop round-trips must not be common. 4:09 AM—My jaunt on the shuttle comes to an end as we pull into Lamont. I thank the driver, take my last few breaths of fresh air, plug my nose, cover up any exposed wounds, and enter Lamont’s filthy stank...
...across sets from California to Cambridge, families who haven’t spoken for years except during commercial breaks will be forced to turn to one another and catch up. I imagine that the first exclamation out of some people’s mouths will be: “Thank heavens for my liberal education!” Then I imagine the sound of millions of televisions being flung at those people’s heads.But what will our liberal educations enable us to talk about during the great Analog Darkness of 2009? The current Core curriculum that occupies approximately...
...letters will shut them up. There’s a growing stack of graduate school applications to reject, and the wannabes that have already gotten through are hard-pressed to tie their own shoelaces, let alone grade exams, without professional help. The kids are back in school—thank God—but the damned hybrid doesn’t handle well in the snow.And you expect us to go to a Faculty meeting? I think I’ll catch up on my journals, thank you very much, or maybe write an essay for The New Yorker. From...