Grant Barrett

Linguist, lexicographer, writer, editor, broadcaster

Month: January 2001

The Myth of the Return is forever in conflict with second-generation immigrants
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January 25, 2001
We like both kinds of music: new country and old country
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January 25, 2001
Will Ferrell, best of a bad comedy lot, coasts on his presidential imitation
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January 25, 2001
War-time letter: September 6, 1944, somewhere in Italy
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January 25, 2001
Ban on animals in Indian circuses leaves only feats etched in our mind’s eye
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January 25, 2001
There’s a llama in the drive, a turkey in the hedge and chickens in the tree
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January 25, 2001
If ever there was an unexamined life on this earth it was mine
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January 24, 2001
Pretty soon there will be mechanized arms to shove Cherry Garcia in your mouth
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January 24, 2001
Vocabulary for the future: oncologist, lumpectomy, sentinel lymph node biopsy
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January 24, 2001
Spies, lies, dissembling: the trade of public relations
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January 24, 2001