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In his Iberia (Random House, 1968), James A. Michener said duende “now dominates Spanish conversation” and “seems to have become the sine qua non of Spanish existence,” whereas in previous visits to Spain he had not heard it at all.
The fundamental problem with the Emmys qua Emmys (aside from the fact, as I learned from the Times this morning, that the voters are volunteers, disproportionately elderly, and unemployed) is that most shows on television are series--and so the same shows and writers and actors-playing-the-same-characters get Emmys year after year.
Having no copy of Aelfric's Homilies available to me, I am unable to see exactly what this cleric and grammarian wrote c. 1000, but I will lay you dollars to doughnuts ( low colloq ., ca. 1920, Partridge) that the Grammarian is not the source of the misquote qua proverb, Money is the root of all evil.
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Here I'm thinking of Mark Lindquist in the Times Book Review ("while Ethan Coen [qua screenwriter] isn't quite as stylish with language as his brother is with a camera, he does have a distinctive voice and an offbeat worldview") or Renee Graham in the Boston Globe ("As with his films, his failures are often almost as interesting as other writers' successes."