Archive: Arts & Entertainment

Smart Talk SMART TALK
By Dr. Les Terse

 

 

i.e.: Down the road from Underbelly, Texas, home of the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired, lies Los Libidos. There, many of the faculty at Bedspring Tech suffer from an odd strain of William F. Buckley Syndrome.

In casual conversation, they say the letters i.e. and e.g. Not only that, but they sometimes confuse one for the other.

I.e. stands for Latin words that mean that is or in other words; e.g., for for example. These abbreviations belong in dense, scholarly works written for maximum obfuscation to impress other scholars, never in good writing.

Professor Pompous Fatuous Failem, poor man, uses i.e. and e.g. in his email and speech.

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June 23 -- The First Congregational Church of Ithaca's Junior Choir will be performed the musical "Moses" at the United Church of Christ's 50th Anniversary General Synod in Hartford, Connecticut.  The 11:00 a.m. presentation in Bushnell Park is part of 'Synod in the City'.   There were between 200 and 300 people in the audience, sitting on blankets or lawn chairs or standing. 

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Smart Talk SMART TALK
By Saber S. Poder, N.P.

INCREDULOUS: In an old AP story, an agent named Leigh Steinberg was trying to make us feel better about the astronomical salaries in major league sports. At the time, ten million was beyond astronomical.

“And for people who find that incredulous,” he said, “it’s the same as yelling at a softdrink machine saying it’s ridiculous to put a dollar in when the same @#%* can cost five cents in your youth.”

At the time, a dollar for a drink was also a shock.

Of course, Steinberg should have said incredible. Or avoided the risk and said unbelievable, which is what incredible means.

Incredulous means unbelieving, so we could say that the people were incredulous over the incredible salaries.

But we’d never say that, would we.

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PoohJune 22, 2007 (ITHACA, NY) – From Thursday June 28th through Saturday, June 30th and again from Thursday, July 5th through Saturday July 7th, Christopher Robin’s bear of Very-Little-Brain will traipse onto the Hangar Theatre stage.

The Hangar’s KIDDSTUFF season continues with A. A. Milne’s classic, Winnie-the-Pooh, showing all six days at 10 am and Noon. Families will laugh along as the happily dim-witted Pooh finds himself in all sorts of frantic adventures with friends like Piglet, Rabbit, Eeyore, and Roo. Dramatized by Kristen Sergel, Winnie-the-Pooh is made possible at the Hangar Theatre with the support of Alphabet Soup. The KIDDSTUFF season is made possible by season sponsors Wegmans and Ithaca College, and season media sponsor, I-100.

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Smart Talk SMART TALK
By  Sotto Voce, N.P.



IMPLEMENT: Alfred Kahn is a Chairman Emeritus of the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired’s board of directors. As chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board during the Carter administration, Dr. Kahn fought a heroic but quixotic battle to get government officials, or at least those serving under him, to use plain English.

One of Kahn’s memos, now in the Institute archive, urged CAB workers and drones to say and write begin, initiate, offer, provide, exercise, administer, execute, use, carry out, or accomplish.

“If I never see to implement again,” he wrote, “I will die happy.

Alfred Kahn is one our heroes, so we pray that he has other reasons to die happy.

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June 15, 2006 (ITHACA, NY)- There’s an unprecedented amount of activity in the Hangar Theatre this summer—a Mainstage season of five productions and a Kiddstuff series that features eight shows for the whole family. Thanks to four emerging directors and the Hangar’s Lab Company, there are at least eight more cutting edge productions “wedged” into the season as well. The Hangar Theatre is announced its 2007 Lab Company Wedge Season.

Last year's Wedge production of Moliere's Tartuffe featured Lansing actress Alyssa Wasenko

June 14, 2007 (ITHACA, NY)—The Hangar Theatre continues its 2007 Mainstage Season with magic, beauty, and the transformative power of love. From June 21st to July 7th, the Hangar presents the hit family musical, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. Artistic Director Kevin Moriarty is excited for audiences to see this truly unique production of the enchanting classic about discovering beauty in the most unlikely places. “I’m thrilled that the Hangar audience will now have the opportunity to experience the exhilarating songs and beautiful story from the classic Disney film in a full-length musical,” says Moriarty. “I’m especially excited that the production will be directed by Wendy Dann, who directed Cats at the Hangar and was able to bring out all the beloved qualities of the material in a fresh new way. Even audiences who had seen the show before were dazzled by the experience of seeing it at the Hangar.”

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