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Ratings by the Motion Picture Association of America are: (G) for general audiences; (PG) parental guidance urged because of material possibly unsuitable for children; (PG-13) parents are strongly cautioned to give guidance for attendance of children you

The Elegant Variation: HERE WE GO AGAIN. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) What one presumes Leonard is saying, given the other dumbed-down rules on his list, is that he eschews what we commonly refer to, for want of a better term, as lyrical prose. One imagines

The Elegant Variation is "Fowler’s (1926, 1965) term for the inept writer’s overstrained efforts at freshness or vividness of expression. Prose guilty of elegant variation calls attention to itself and doesn’t permit its ideas to seem naturally clear. It

AT STONEY ROAD PRESS the art hangs on pegs from the ceiling. Today, Donald Teskey prints are freshly racked overhead, like the most expensive tea towels you can imagine. They are landscapes, identical but for the tiny differences that come from being han

So there you are surfing Facebook when you learn that one of your closest friends has decided he wants to be a woman. He's just posted a status update announcing he is going for a sex-change operation and henceforth wishes to be known as Samantha.Your ja