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...Dougherty's script hysterically recreates the world of 1950s television comedy a la Sid Caesar and "Your Show of Shows." Much of the action of My Favorite Year takes place in and around the offices of "Comedy Cavalcade," the show for which Benjy writes, giving Dougherty the opportunity to toss off one-liners and badinage worthy of a much better show than the one he's stuck with...
...toss around terms like "multiculturalism," but we no longer know what they mean. Indeed, our definitions have become distorted, twisted around. Once we spoke of assimilation and a "melting pot;" now, a new breed of scholarship emphasizes a curious form of academic segregation. Where once we studied and learned American history, now we study Afro-American, Asian-American and other ethnically-defined histories. And we do it in the name of multiculturalism...
...about 9:30 on All Saints Day when the streets began to heave and toss, darkening the city under a cloud of dust raised from collapsing buildings. Church bells clanged by themselves, until they fell out of their towers. The tremors could be felt as far away as Scotland. Soon the fires broke out. Some flames were doused by the tidal wave, which reared 30 ft. high and crashed to the shore, drowning survivors who had not been crushed or burned. Once the water receded the looters came, including the inmates and galley slaves of the local prisons, plundering anything...
...special honor, but here we pretty much throw it out the window. (This column, for instance, will only be read by one pair of eyes besides mine before it gets to you.) We write to fill space, like I'm doing right now. We toss in irreverent, shocking and provacative statements like...
Sumner Redstone, a man who does not easily toss in his cards, was determined not to be shunted aside in the bidding war for Paramount Communications last week. As the clock ticked down toward a Friday-midnight deadline for new bids, Wall Street was wondering whether Viacom Inc.'s chairman would be able to pull a last-minute rabbit out of his hat. Unknown to most analysts and investors, a team of investment advisers and lawyers was secretly huddled at the Ritz Carlton hotel in New York City negotiating a blockbuster of a deal that would help Viacom beat...