November 7, 2003

Waiting for the 'Big One'

By JOHN HEARTFIELD

A political theorist and a surfer mulls the similarities, and one major difference, between his two passions

Much like politicians, landlords have a well-developed sense for the elasticity of language. Politicians stretch the truth for power. Landlords do it for an equally venerable goal: rent. And as my partner Sarah and I scoured the Los Angeles basin for housing recently, we ran into some truly stunning feats of linguistic gymnastics.

In the able and utterly shameless hands of

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