Life in a Northern Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. B.M.A.T.C., and Etruscan typewriter erasers. Blogged by David Gorsline.
Tuesday, 1 November 2005 
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A couple of tidbits about the original production of The Foreigner that I didn't know, from Gordon Cox's preview of last year's New York revival of the piece. posted: 6:00:27 PM |
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McDonald's will soon sell organic, fair trade coffee in 650 of its New England restaurants. Green Mountain Coffee Roasters is the distribution partner. (Thanks to blogdex.) posted: 1:59:41 PM |
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Jesse Sheidlower ponders literally:
The trouble with usage criticism of the sort leveled at literally is
that it's typically uneven: Parallel uses are frequent and usually pass
unnoticed. For every peruse there's a scan...; for every
hopefully there's a clearly; and for every literally
there's a really: Or did you expect people to complain when
really is used to emphasize things that are not "real"? When Meg, in
Little Women, moaned that "It's been such a dismal day I'm really
dying for some amusement," she wasn't the one dying.
(Thanks to The Morning News.) posted: 12:59:31 PM |
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