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Sigh-oh-nara, Al

Wednesday October 11, 2000

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  • TITLE: "Sigh-oh-nara, Al" A pun on the Japanese word for goodbye, Sayonara. Also the title of a fairly dreadful 1957 movie which starred Marlon Brando, Dennis Hopper, Red Buttons, and James Garner.

  • "…like Leonard Zelig." The title character in the 1983 Woody Allen film, "Zelig." Leonard Zelig is a human chameleon who finds himself in the middle of almost every important moment of the 20th century.

  • "the Jon Lovitz character …" Lovitz, who I think is a comic genius, played a continuing and occasional person who pathologically made things up. He popularized the phrase, "Yeh. That's the ticket."

  • "…reverse-iambic, baby …" an iamb is a poetic metrical foot with a short syllable followed by an accented syllable: dah-DAH, dah-DAH. If you put five of these in a phrase it is iambic pentameter. Extra credit. What famous author wrote plays in iambic pentameter?
    Answer? Al Gore.

  • "… Santa Anna Maria Alberghetti…" A stupid pun on Santa Anna, (full name, Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna (1794-1876)) the Mexican General who won the battle of the Alamo.

    Anna Maria Alberghetti was a minor film actress and a major Broadway star best known for playing the leading female role in the musical "Carnival."

  • "…Phyrric victory…" In 280 B.C. Phyrrus, king of Epirus, decided to mount a campaign against the Romans, but following some impressive but exhausting victories he was defeated by the more powerful state. Phyrrus won the battles but the cost of winning was so high, he lost the war.

  • Mullings "Catchy Caption of the Day"

    "Don't sigh. Don't sigh. Don't sigh. Don't sigh. Don't sigh. Don't sigh. Don't sigh. Don't sigh. Don't sigh. Don't sigh. Don't sigh. Don't sigh. Don't sigh. Don't sigh. Don't sigh. Don't sigh. Don't sigh. Don't sigh. Don't sigh. Don't sigh. Don't sigh. Don't sigh. Don't sigh. Don't sigh."

  • "polynomial regression …" Here is a definition: "Polynomial regression fits a response variable as a polynomial in a predictor variable by the method of least squares." This material WILL be on the final.

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