Word: agee
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...maybe it's proof that the pre-Apatow age of movie comedy is officially over. There's a reason Peter seems so... so very odd. He's an avatar of traditional Hollywood romantic comedy, where the male tries to be suave and caring, to be the man women love. But that form of movie romance is anachronistic, when most pictures insist that the crucial relationship is guy-guy. Peter has honed the wrong skills; in this movie he doesn't have to get the girl; he already has her. He has to become a supporter of Guy Marriage...
...discussion of child psychology is limited to that which Genie might be able to comprehend—not very much. However, the novel strives to provide a commentary on Genie’s psychological development over the course of his detective case. As a coming-of-age narrative, “Huge” leaves something to be desired.Genie’s relatability is sometimes compromised by uncharacteristically astute observations about his town, his acquaintances, and his family members. While these observations deliver important information, it’s hard to believe that Genie, trapped in a personal fantasy...
...common fear of sameness and suburban alienation when he describes the citizens of his hometown of Little Rocky Run, Virginia: “And they went to the gym after work and met their friends for happy hour and slept with their friends with condoms and became married at age twenty-seven and purchased a home and ventured forth in procreation.” At first, it’s almost ironic that Boice’s portrait seems like nothing new: “They had no structure to their faces. Their bones morphed into one another. They spoke...
...gospel in this information age that Benedict, for better or worse, should have learned by now: inflammatory rhetoric begets inflammatory rhetoric. What is less clear is whether this and the other recent firestorms he has sparked make the Pope more or less relevant to the citizens of the world - and to members of his own flock...
...that will give this place a chance at putting its past behind it. While the tribal dynamic does not extend throughout the country, especially in more urban centers or among Christian communities, much of the fighting came from tribal elements, both Sunni and Shi'ite. Tribal reconciliation is an age-old mechanism for resolving disputes. When the leader of a tribe speaks, if he says he has reconciled with another or with the government, his word is law, and all members of that tribe fall in line. That's why al-Maliki is reaching out to them...