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...Oliver Twist. A patriotic English boy contributes to prosperity by going on a lowfat, low-protein, low-carbohydrate diet...
...gear: a blackboard diagram. The way Adler uses it, however, would make less self-confident teachers quail. For his goal, it turns out, is not to illustrate a point but to start an argument. To do so, Adler returns to Garrick's first question, but adds a new twist. The blackboard diagram contains conflicting statements about the nature of beauty. Position A holds that beauty is purely subjective. Position B holds that there is an objective aspect to beauty as as well. Adler explains the definitions, then asks for a show of hands. When two hands are raised...
Begin then gave a humanitarian twist to the raid. He declared that the reactor was going to start to process highly radioactive materials either the first week of July or the first week of September. Once the reactor was "hot," explained Begin, any successful bombing attack would unleash "a horrifying wave of radioactivity." In a ghoulish reference, he reminded listeners that Nazi mass murderers had used poisonous Zyklon B gas on their Jewish victims, and radioactivity "is also a poison." Said Begin: "In Baghdad, hundreds of thousands of innocent citizens would have been hurt. I for one would never have...
...strike was the final twist in a long and complicated battle between the men who play baseball and the men who own it. The roots of the conflict lie in a 1975 decision in a case brought by former Los Angeles Dodgers Pitcher Andy Messersmith and Baltimore Orioles Pitcher Dave McNally challenging baseball's reserve clause. Under that 92-year-old provision, a player had been bound to the club that initially signed him until he was traded or quit the game. When an arbitrator (and later an appeals court) ruled in favor of the players, the free-agent...
...some other art form." If Kaufman functions as a one-man Weather Underground, Brooks is a more accessible, ultimately more subversive radical professor of post-funny comedy. Says Brooks, who was born Albert Einstein, son of the dialect comedian Parkyakarkus: "Life is so bizarre anyway, the slightest twist can make it really funny." Brooks' twist is so slight, so deft, that many may not get the joke. In 1975 he and Harry Shearer wrote and produced A Star Is Bought, a record album ostensibly designed to "sell" Albert Brooks to various radio audiences. There was a patriotic monologue...