Word: unreadability
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...remind me why I took that class. Am I stuck in a huge morass? Or did the CUE Guide say I could pass? Now the Lamont air was filled with stress as students crammed under duress. We wanted to go to bed, but there were ten books yet unread. And as we tried to learn ID's, to avoid earning dreaded C's, we cursed students who were at ease the day midterms arrived...
...another. Amusing your friends is easy; making strangers laugh is tough. The Lampoon's Guide to College Admissions will be sold to thousands of people whose names they have never heard. Will there be enough genuine humor nuggets mixed in with the inside jokes to keep these unread proles laughing? For once, the answer is probably yes --they got through all 165 pages without even one mention of Maxwell's Demon. If this parody is a harbinger of changes to come, then maybe the Lampoon has decided to start slowly weaning itself from the obscure and self-referential gibberish most...
...Regis and Kathie Lee's PG-rated cheeky banter also made me feel like I was doing something vaguely untoward; more than any show I've ever watched, "Live!" made me want to dust off an as-yet-unread volume of Proust and heave my television out the window. I never stayed with the program long enough to see the duo sit down with a guest (many of whom were folks I found deeply uninteresting, like Burt Reynolds and Loni Anderson). But I wonder if most people didn't tune out the guest segments; after all, the first...
...seems the famously taciturn GRETA GARBO could at times be quite communicative. This week the Rosenbach Museum and Library in Philadelphia will unveil a collection of letters written by the Swedish sylph that have sat unread since 1960 and may portray a side of the actress never seen in her movies. The letters were given to the museum by their recipient--poet, playwright and socialite MERCEDES DE ACOSTA, who is perhaps best known for her purported affairs with Marlene Dietrich and Isadora Duncan. The correspondence is believed to suggest that Garbo also ranked among her conquests. De Acosta stipulated that...
...resonate with future generations about as much as "The Honeymooners" hits home with us. "The Simpsons" will be as cutting as "The Howdy Doody Show." Stephen King and Anne Rice will bore those who find them at second-hand sales. John Grisham and Danielle Steel will be unknown and unread. Britney Spears will be facing menopause, Ricky Martin will be balding, Julia Roberts will be collecting social security and Jack Nicholson will be dead...