Famous/last words: the disruptive rhetoric of historico-narrative 'finality' in Suzan-Lori Parks' 'The America Play'
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Suzan-Lori Parks' 'The America Play' destabilizes the artifacts from which many people construct a sense of history, especially the supposed final words of famous dying people. This play's first act critiques orality while the second conjectures about textuality.
Publication Name: American Drama
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 1061-0057
Year: 2001
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Paid for by...: behind the presidential ad wars: who's paying for what?
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It is stated that few reporters took note of the "paid for by" disclaimer at the end of the commercials. The high-priced ad war launched this summer in presidential battleground states by the national democratic and republican parties are described.
Publication Name: The IRE Journal
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0164-7016
Year: 2000
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Surrogates.
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A discussion on the lives of different college students is presented in the light of the issue of increasing number of married students where the wives are working in secretarial positions and the husbands are pursuing their degrees.
Publication Name: New Letters
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0146-4930
Year: 2004
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