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Tuesday, 1 November 2005

A couple of tidbits about the original production of The Foreigner that I didn't know, from Gordon Cox's preview of last year's New York revival of the piece.

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McDonald's will soon sell organic, fair trade coffee in 650 of its New England restaurants. Green Mountain Coffee Roasters is the distribution partner.

(Thanks to blogdex.)

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Jesse Sheidlower ponders literally:

The trouble with usage criticism of the sort leveled at literally is that it's typically uneven: Parallel uses are frequent and usually pass unnoticed. For every peruse there's a scan...; for every hopefully there's a clearly; and for every literally there's a really: Or did you expect people to complain when really is used to emphasize things that are not "real"? When Meg, in Little Women, moaned that "It's been such a dismal day I'm really dying for some amusement," she wasn't the one dying.

(Thanks to The Morning News.)

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