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Monthly Archives: May 2012
Correction o’ the Day (Broadway Standing O Edition)
From the New York Times: A critic’s notebook article on Monday about the prevalence of standing ovations at Broadway shows described incorrectly the quickness with which audience members appeared to be on their feet at a performance of the current revival … Continue reading
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Tagged Broadway, Death of a Salesman, megasecond, millisecond, New York Times, standing ovations
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Boston News Media Miss Harvard Law School’s Naming Student Center After “Tax Cheat”
From our Late to the Party desk: Several weeks ago the Weekly Standard ran an item (sub. req.) that began this way: Edifice Complex On April 20, Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan returned to her old stomping grounds in Cambridge, Massachusetts, … Continue reading
Dead Blogging George Deem At The Boston Athenaeum
So the Missus and I trundled down to the library-lively Boston Athenaeum to catch its George Deem: The Art of Art History exhibit. And it’s a corker. From the Curator: George Deem: The Art of Art History George Deem (1932–2008) … Continue reading
Catholic League Attacks Jon Stewart, Kellogg’s In New Ads
Crazy Train engineer Bill Donohue of the Catholic League is on the adpath again, this time regarding a segment the recently ran on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. This ad ran on the op-ed page of today’s New York … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Donohue, Catholic League, Daily Show, Fox News, Jon Stewart, Kellogg's, vagina manger
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Boston Globe Splits Up Hardworking Staff!
Last week the hardworking staff was told it had won the coveted Boston Globe Cartoon Caption Contest. And sure enough, here’s what appeared on the Globe’s website: The winner: According to this week’s winner, John Carroll of Brookline, the T’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Gobe, Cartoon Caption Contest, hardworking staff, Silver Line
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Dead Blogging Google Chairman Eric Schmidt’s BU Commencement Address
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt (Google search results here) delivered the 139th Commencement Address at Boston University yesterday, and it can be described in three words: predictable and pedestrian. Schmidt started out with a stumbling reference to a Saul Bellow … Continue reading
Facecrook! Privacy Lawsuit An Initial Public Offing?
Right before Facebook launched its ballyhooed but disappointing Initial Public Offering (IPO), the social media behemoth got whacked with a behemoth class-action suit over its privacy practices. Via The Telegraph: Facebook hit with $15bn privacy lawsuit ahead of stock market debut The company … Continue reading
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Tagged class-action lawsuit, Facebook, GM ads, Individual Privacy Offender, IPO, Martin Sorrell, Sneak ADtack, The Telegraph, WPP
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