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...While a policy of zero-tolerance regarding profanity was for my dismissal, this had not strictly been the station?s practice.? Case in point: A 2002 interview that Seymour did with Dennis Hopper regarding Andy Warhol.? While discussing the work of Helmut Newton, Hopper used the same strong obscenity I did, Ruth laughed, and it ran unbleeped...
...stretch between the Monday-night showdown against the Huskies and Game 1 of the ECAC quarterfinals, Cavanagh had zero goals in nine games. And nine assists, including two in the opening matchup with Brown...
...that flag-folding scene is a perfectly typical scenario in A Lie of the Mind, which was staged at Zero Church Street last weekend by the American Repertory Theater and the Moscow Art Theatre School Institute for Advanced Theatre Training (ART/MXAT). The production itself was not a bad one; I’d be happy to see most of its company in a play that was grounded in sanity and realism. But watching them take on A Lie of the Mind only emphasized that many of its actors were still learning how to make complicated characters believable, and that together...
...precisely because it was a national event that the families have been accorded such extraordinary support and attention--from the initial outpouring of generosity to the consecration of the ground zero space and establishment of a memorial to the billions of dollars of taxpayer money for their compensation...
...seems to be in the nature of genius to zero in on its purpose. In the 1790s a young French boy named Jean-Francois Champollion, the son of a bookseller, became obsessed with ancient languages--not only Latin and Greek but also Hebrew, Arabic, Persian and Chaldean. According to The Linguist and the Emperor (Ballantine; 271 pages), by Daniel Meyerson, Champollion was a dreamy, solitary kid who mouthed off in class, but as a schoolboy, he assembled a 2,000-page dictionary of Coptic, an ancient Egyptian language. Luckily for him, French soldiers in Egypt soon discovered the Rosetta stone...