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The rebuke dans l'escalier.(Remembering WFB)(William F. Buckley, Jr. )(In memoriam)(Brief article)
WHY does no one mention the subtlest of all Buckley's rhetorical ploys, the rebuke dans l'escalier? Beats me. It was such beautiful stuff. Everybody is familiar with l'esprit de l'escalier. Some smug wit has cut you to the quick in repartee before an entire room, but it is only now, hours later, as you climb the stairs, l'escalier, to go to bed that you hit upon the withering comeback your poor brain was churning so desperately to find at the time. But in the rebuke dans l'escalier it is only now, hours later, as you climb the stairs to go to bed, that you even realize you've been skewered.
I'll give you an example. I was serving as the interviewee for one of a series of audiotapes Buckley was recording for the humanistic nourishment of physicians. (Please, don't even bother asking.) We were in a moldering sound studio in the crumbling WeVar (west of Varick Street) section of New York. Buckley is about three minutes into the interview when a voice from inside a glass booth says ...
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- Magazine article from: The New Leader Kanfer, Stefan June 6, 1994 700+ words
ONE OF MY favorite New Yorker cartoons shows a man on crutches, waiting for a traffic light to change. In the first panel, the signal reads DON'T WALK. In the second, it changes to WALK. Whereupon the man throws away his crutches and blithely crosses the street. The drawing skewered a cinematic and
- Interpreters: inside the glass booth.
- Magazine article from: UN Chronicle Endrst, Elsa B. September 1, 1991 700+ words
In describing the complexities of his demanding, often stressful profession, UN Russian interpreter Preter Pyotr Avaliani said: "Simultaneous interpretation is like driving a car that has a steering wheel but no brakes and no reverse." He is one of 142 remarkable linguists from 22 nations who
- Cracking the glass booth: for female b'casters, marquee sports might represent...
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Christon, Lawrence November 15, 2005 700+ words
When it comes to sports broadcasting, has the playing field leveled for women? Certainly eyes and ears turn to Charlsie Canter whenever a major TV network has covered key thoroughbred racing events like the Breeders Cup and the Triple Crown. Canter herself is a kind of WASP thoroughbred when it
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- News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire April 22, 2004 700+ words
...birthday celebration, Munzilova entered a glass booth there one evening and walked out less...to catch as much as they can." The glass booth is filled with 100, 200, 500, 1...the theme. The first contest in the glass booth was held Tuesday evening, April 6...
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- Newspaper article from: The Post and Courier (Charleston, SC) February 13, 2003 700+ words
...where WTMA (Tiger Radio) broadcast from a roof-mounted glass booth." Actually, I do remember the Fork at the foot of the Ashley...who, no doubt, played some bopping music from that mounted glass booth, I received a letter from Ron Brandon who wrote, "My wife...
- Island Shelter Scoops Award For Design.
- News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire October 24, 2003 700+ words
...praise and criticism for its design, which encompasses a glass booth at the end of a concrete walkway. Tiree councillor Ian Gillies...are meant to walk from light to dark, to light, where a glass booth frames Gott Bay. "I think the islanders, perhaps, don...
- Newsday, Melville, N.Y., On The Isle column.(Column)
- Newspaper article from: Newsday (Melville, NY) October 15, 2006 700+ words
...betelnut girl" selling an addictive substance from inside a glass booth. A woman crawling around a garden in an intestine-like...Annamarie Ho, whose parents are from China, re-created a glass booth similar to those from which young women in Taiwan sell betelnuts...
- Window & Door Products.
- Magazine article from: Professional Builder (1993) December 15, 2006 700+ words
...interior glass is coated with 78-inch Low-E insulating glass. Booth W301 Therma-Tru Staff The Tru-Defense line for entry and...causes water to "sheet off' rather than "cling" to the glass. Booth W1943 Schlage Staff The latest keypad locks from Schlage...
- Mario Lopez & Wachovia Show Saving Money Can Be Fun, Easy & Automatic.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire February 20, 2008 700+ words
...Angeles 4. Bryne Inocenio, Glendale, CA 5. Darah Dolney, Monsey, NY Mario Lopez took the Way2Save Challenge by entering a glass booth to grab dollars for Teach for America. Wachovia, its foundation and The Wachovia Championship PGA golf tournament have contributed...
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- Magazine article from: Design Week Stallard, Paul January 12, 2001 700+ words
...more time in their brands and actually engaging with their consumers. You can't understand consumers by sitting behind a glass booth at a qualitative research group in Sheffield; at a research debrief meeting; or by reading reams of research data. It is...
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