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Coming as a reader means encountering the peculiarity of text: isolated, stripped of inflection and emphasis; vulnerable to selective reading, selective sight, decontextualization. Stranger than seeing yourself grinning exquisitely in vacation photographs is hearing your own words thrown back against you: "I was reading the other day," a friend begins...

Author: By Maryanthe E. Malliaris, | Title: I.D.-ology | 3/14/2001 | See Source »

The measure of our own Puritanism-a Puritanism which suggests that pleasure must lie in the exclusive repository of expensive vacations; that the routine and the familiar must be devoted exclusively to the work-obsessed and fast-food-filled tedium that will make our panic-stricken two weeks of vacation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life in the Charm Lane | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

But there is an illusion of grand proportions at work. Any delegate expecting a vacation at Ivy Council conferences is sadly mistaken, and notions of unchecked spending on conferences are deeply flawed. Without disparaging our gracious, most recent hosts at Yale, a more apt description of Ivy Council conferences would...

Author: By Ean W. Fullerton, | Title: Skeptics Threaten Ivy Council | 3/8/2001 | See Source »

"The most telling evidence that the students are a big part of the audience is that you can tell when vacation comes. The audience has decrease and it's a natural place for students to come because we are showing stuff on the cutting edge and it's simply a...

Author: By Nicole B. Usher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Brattle Theatre Changes Hands | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

This is the Disney version of South Park: cheeky, sketchily drawn kids in conflict with clueless, tyrannical adults. Given its auspices, Recess is infinitely less transgressive than the competition; its dialogue will not bring a blush to a parentally guiding grownup's cheek. Here, summer vacation is under high-tech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Recess: School's Out | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

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