Tag: culture

This might surprise a few people…

A quote from famed U.S. writer Tom Wolfe: “Bush is portrayed as a moron. I’ve only conversed with him a couple of times – not for very long – but I found he was more literate on literature than the editor of the New York Review of Books, Bob Silvers. I’ve talked to both of …

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"Give me your tired words, your poor words, your muddled paragraphs yearning to break free…"

It’s the Lake Superior State University 2007 List of Banished Words. My favorite: NOW PLAYING IN THEATERS — Heard in movie advertisements. Where can we see that, again? “How often do movies premiere in laundromats or other places besides theaters? I know that when I want to see a movie I think about going to …

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