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Open houses were crowded with Microsofties, usually younger than we, $300,000 cashier's checks dangling out of their back pockets.
Not everyone can always be sure of everything, but it has always seemed to me that one of the functions of education is to implant doubt in a student's mind: in other words, it is not so important that he remember, a dozen years after leaving school, what a dangling modifier, split infinitive, agreement between the number of a subject and its verb, etc., might mean, but the process of education should have created a (minor) circuit in the brain of the pupil so that when a certain situation is encountered later on, he acknowledge a nagging suspicion that there might be something wrong and that it would be best were he to look it up in an authoritative source to see what is written there by people who know such things.
While Soutine--unlike Chagall, to whom he is sometimes compared--did not paint stereotypically Jewish subjects, he may have been alluding, with those dangling fowl, to a Yom Kippur rite in which a slaughtered chicken was whirled around a rabbi's head in a ritual of absolution.
There is a dangling thread from the interview that none of the papers tugs at: Willey says that one of the first people she saw after she got away from the president was then-Secretary of the Treasury Lloyd Bentsen.
Bradley responded by snipping off the huckster's polyester necktie, saying in effect, Do you have so little respect for me as to think I'd fall for something that stupid ? While Gore waited with his hand dangling in midair, Bradley disdainfully critiqued and dismissed his whole approach to politics.
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