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Jan 03, 08
Hampton offers a tribute of the now-deceased film critic Pauline Kael. This link is to the full text in the ProQuest database; you'll need to enter your UM Library ID and Pin to view it.
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Her hyperresponsive, intensely personal prose electrified readers because it spoke to how most of us really absorb movies, and other art, too: not as desiccated "texts" to be picked over like splayed-open medschool cadavers but living, breathing, organic forms composed of all kinds of different impulses, contradictions, cross-- fertilizations, and cross-purposes.
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Cliché, not plagiarism, is the problem with today's pallid political discourse.
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Why is academic writing so boring? ... Academic writing needs to be ordered, precise, and to make every move explicit. All the work needs to be done on the page rather than in the reader's head. By contrast, good literature often relies on the unsaid, or the implied or hinted at, rather than the expressed thought.
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You do not have to write the dreary sentences that say “In this essay I intended to explore the theme of transvestism in William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. My goal will be…blah, blah, blah.”
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War spawns Newspeak because reporters are spoon-fed information.
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Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way ...
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