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The cover story purports to critically examine the hype surrounding Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut but really just adds to it.
The film, which purports to explore the circumstances under which a celebrated anthropologist, Ethan Powell (Anthony Hopkins), disappeared among Rwandan gorillas and emerged two years later as a mute and wild-eyed killer of park rangers, is loaded with radical credos--ideas evocative of Kafka, deep ecology, and Dian Fossey at her most gorillaphilic.
The Science study, for instance, purports to show that among 1,600 15-19-year-old males, those computer-queried were almost 4 times more likely than the paper-and-pencil group to report homosex, 5.5 times more likely to admit they were often or always drunk or high when having sex with women, and 14 times more likely to cop to sex with an intravenous drug user.
After trying his hand at Disney, philanthropy, Broadway, and professional sports, he is returning to the pinnacle of the Hollywood hierarchy through his new Artists Management Group, which purports to give clients more control of their "product."
A thread running through all these mistaken etymologies is that their supporters think that the only criterion in etymology is “if it sounds like x , then it must be derived from x .” That misconception can be seen on a grand scale in Isaac Mozeson's The Word: The Dictionary That Reveals the Hebrew Source of English, which purports to show that about 22,000 (!) English words are of Hebrew origin.