NYTimes.com: A Long Wait for Another Shot at Broadway

[Ann Burlingham]

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Just as I stopped reeling from the shock of finding out, only yesterday, that "nonplussed" and "bemused" have whole new meanings, the Times knocks me back today with the use of "nonplusment". Imagine my nonplusation. (Which probably no more reasonable a formation, but it appears in my venerable darling, the Webster's 2nd.)


THEATER | April 26, 2009
A Long Wait for Another Shot at Broadway
By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
To anyone with a glancing knowledge of culture, Samuel Beckett's play "Waiting for Godot" is now almost as familiar a brand as Tide detergent or MTV.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/theater/26ishe.html?emc=eta1




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