‘Response to Movie/TV’ Archive

Comments on the Film “The Descendants” 01/10/2012 No Comments

I recently saw a film called The Descendants, about a large family of landed aristocratic background in Hawaii.  Though the Hawaiian setting is interesting, it is a story that could happen in many cultures – California is not without a landed aristocracy of its own.  Matt King, the character played by George Clooney, is the [...]

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The Language of “Mad Men” 09/20/2010 No Comments

I found this on the New York Times website.  Comparative linguistics, or philology, has been one of my favorite subjects since my high school days, though I could hardly converse about it with my friends; it was the era of “Little Deuce Coupe” and the surf culture was fading from its earlier dominance (interestingly enough, [...]

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