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Over the past several years, Gutlerner has reached out to students from the Spoken Word Society and Cambridge One-to-One, a volunteer program based out of the Phillips Brooks House Association. He has also secured teaching internships for undergraduates who wish to pursue the profession but cannot enroll in UTEP...
Merriam-Webster decreed “w00t” the number-one word of 2007. A hybrid of letters, numerals, shorthand, and hooting noises, “w00t” is defined as “an interjection expressing joy (it could be after a triumph, or for no reason at all); similar in use to the word ‘yay.’” Instead of analyzing precisely why “w00t” reads better with zeros instead of “o”s, I offer some alternatives, taken from...
Headlines are hard. I know, because I write for a newspaper. I remember when I first became an editor and spent the better part of an hour staring at a computer screen, trying to figure out a way to fit the words “genie,” “bottle,” and “students” across five columns before the person next to me suddenly swiveled and yelled, slightly aghast and slightly amused, “Why not just, ‘Students Unbottle Genie on Cabot Stage...
...eyeline matches and the hackneyed methods of portraying space, continuous diagetic sound, and re-establishing shots (in short, everything that makes a movie feel slick and unreal) ever shake an adult audience as deeply as the subject matter calls for? When Washington’s character boldly writes the word “Revolution” on the chalk board the first day of class, the theater screen feels especially opaque. Vladimir Mayakovsky once asserted that there is no revolutionary art without revolutionary form. And the film doesn’t present any revolution to its viewersThis isn?...
...government had planned to modify the system but, nearly a year on, it has only succeeded in botching the job. One transport minister has been sacked and another is picking up the pieces, as the transit system is losing over $1 million a day. Transantiago - possibly the most hated word in the Chilean lexicon - is a classic case of a good idea wrecked in the implementation...