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University of Michigan Law School

Entertainment, Arts, and Sports Law

1994

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Strings Attached--Violin Fraud And Other Deceptions, Carla J. Shapreau May 1994

Strings Attached--Violin Fraud And Other Deceptions, Carla J. Shapreau

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Violin Fraud: Deception, Forgery, Theft, and the Law by Brian W. Harvey

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In Search Of Faulkner's Law, Richard Weisberg May 1994

In Search Of Faulkner's Law, Richard Weisberg

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Forensic Fictions: The Lawyer Figure in Faulkner by Jay Watson

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Practicing Poetry, Teaching Law, David A. Skeel Jr. May 1994

Practicing Poetry, Teaching Law, David A. Skeel Jr.

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Before Our Eyes by Lawrence Joseph

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Law, Literature, And The Humanities: Panel Discussion, James Boyd White, Nancy L. Cook, Judy M. Cornett, Clark D. Cunningham, Thomas D. Eisele, L. H. Larue, David Ray Papke Jan 1994

Law, Literature, And The Humanities: Panel Discussion, James Boyd White, Nancy L. Cook, Judy M. Cornett, Clark D. Cunningham, Thomas D. Eisele, L. H. Larue, David Ray Papke

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This panel discussion took place on April 21, 1994, as part of the University of Cincinnati College of Law's 1994 Robert S. Marx Lecture presented by Professor James Boyd White: The Authority of Law and Philosophy in Plato's Crito.

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'I Can Take A Hint': Social Ineptitude, Embarrassment, And The King Of Comedy, William I. Miller Jan 1994

'I Can Take A Hint': Social Ineptitude, Embarrassment, And The King Of Comedy, William I. Miller

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The phrase "I can take a hint," when said seriously, contains its own denial. It reveals that the speaker has not been very adept at recognizing the hints already given, nor very graceful about not making a scene once he has recognized them. Its very utterance has the effect of punishing the hint-giver by making her hint fail as a hint. The truly successful hint works by gaining its end with no extra awkwardness added to the social encounter. The good hint should be barely perceived by the person toward whom it is directed. We could even say that it …

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