Word: actualizing
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This assertion is just as extraliterary as those set forth by feminists, multiculturalists and all the others who discuss books in ways Bloom ridicules and despises. And Bloom's view produces chapter titles such as "Freud: A Shakespearean Reading" and "Joyce's Agon with Shakespeare," in which the actual works and words of the upstart authors are wrenched out of context and forced into hypothetical bouts of cross-generational arm wrestling...
...Doren clan is a caricature of effete Waspishness, Goodwin a garden-variety TV-movie crusader. Herb Stempel, who blew the whistle on the scandal, is reborn as perhaps the most offensively stereotyped Jew in modern American cinema. To gauge the injustice, one has to go back to the actual tapes of Van Doren and Stempel on Twenty-One. Van Doren's theatrical groping for answers today looks phony, while Stempel's stolid awkwardness is rather ingratiating. He may not have been classic TV material, but Herb was the better actor...
With the introduction of more integral characters, most notably John Huston as Evelyn Mulwray's father, the plot keeps thickening before the actual climax, but surprisingly little action takes place in Chinatown. Even when it does, the location seems an afterthought in allegiance to the title. Rather, the name is most likely supposed to evoke the sense of mystery and otherworldliness embodied in the district. Perhaps if the plot did not twist around on itself so intricately, an abstract title would have worked...
...comparisons between human and ape proteins and DNA. The divergence between the ape and human lines, argued the biochemists, came somewhere between 4 million and 6 million years ago. And some paleontologists predicted that as hominid species were discovered from periods closer and closer to the time of the actual split, they should be even more apelike than Lucy...
...Mexican congressman who allegedly paid for the shooting. Jorge Rodriguez Gonzalez, arrested over the weekend, says his boss, Congressman Manuel Munoz Rocha, hired him and his brother to plan the hit. The Attorney General's office -- where the dead man's brother is deputy -- charges that Gonzalez hired the actual gumman, a 28-year-old horse trainer who's confessed. The congressman, now being sought by police, allegedly plotted the killing because Ruiz Massieu was a reformer -- just like Luis Donaldo Colosio, the PRI presidential candidate who was assassinated in March...