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...chit-chat between friends. If you must resort to romantic rumination via Verizon, at least provide your name or initial since it’s smoother to assume we don’t have your number stored away—just because we do, along with a personalized ring-tone (“Let’s Get It On” by Marvin Gaye) is besides the point...
...middle of the table.” But as the individuals settle down in their chairs, it is John Cusack who commands the room. His aloof cool, charmingly erudite quips, and laid-back appearance (sporting the same shocked hair of the film) immediately sets the tone for the interview. In the end, what emerges is a surprisingly profound discussion of the art of acting, musical inspirations, and opportunities for human redemption. But lifting the weighty themes is some lighthearted banter—and at least one mention of a “sexual bus stop in purgatory...
...sits in a see-through chair (wearing a powder blue headband) while the silhouettes of whatever long-haired sell-outs she co-opted into her band banged on see-through instruments. It’s all very mod, minus any pretense of legitimacy.The bridge signals a radical change in tone. The three chords employed throughout (bold minimalist statement or banal pop trash?) suddenly turn minor, and Hilary starts yelling “Away! Away!” for no discernible reason. To add visual insult to aural injury, all of this takes place while Hilary dances in front...
...ardently I admire and love you.” The youth and charm of the protagonists makes them entirely relatable to the college audience; Jane and Elizabeth’s bedtime talk about Jane’s coy flirtation with Mr. Bingley is exactly of the same tone as the conversations my roommate and I share from top and bottom bunk, albeit with slightly different syntax. Anyone who missed the reading for Reid Professor of English and American Literature Phillip J. Fisher’s English 157, “The Classic Phase of the Novel...
...with a passage about his father’s death, Franken choked up and needed a few moments to regain composure. But he was able to laugh it off. “I cry at a good McDonald’s commercial,” he said. The serious tone was also reflected when Franken spoke about the impact of religion on American culture. He stressed that the founding fathers like Thomas Jefferson and James Madison were deists who saw morality all around them without the emphasis on Christianity. “Then again, Jefferson had sex with a slave...