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Even when he praises other artists, the compliments seem oddly back-handed. In a chapter about Great American Plays, he lauds many authors, but gives special credit to Thornton Wilder for “Our Town.” Mamet has some intriguing thoughts about how the play utilizes language with verisimilitude to American dialect. The problem is that he insists that “the vulgate, the actual language of the people can be found only in the cultural anathemas known as popular entertainment.” This argument is tenuously developed to a frustrating conclusion...

Author: By Matthew C. Stone, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: David Mamet’s Overstated ‘Theatre’ | 4/13/2010 | See Source »

...performance-contingent bonuses and stock options, making him one of the highest paid U.S. executives that year. "Motorola's [board] had to decide - shut down the business, or find one of the very few people both capable and willing to turn things around," says Avian Securities analyst Matt Thornton. "Someone of Sanjay's caliber had to have incentives to take this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Motorola's Binary Code | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

...impressed with Elizabeth Rubin's engaging profile of Robert Gates [Feb. 15]. I have a new respect for and confidence in Gates and President Obama's choice. Kermita Thornton, OKLAHOMA CITY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gates, Open | 3/8/2010 | See Source »

Gates, Open I was impressed with Elizabeth Rubin's engaging profile of Robert Gates [Feb. 15]. I have a new respect for and confidence in Gates and President Obama's choice. Kermita Thornton Oklahoma City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 3/8/2010 | See Source »

...Kermita Thornton, OKLAHOMA CITY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

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