Word: arcing
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...city that symbolizes the boldness of the South's economic ascendance, and what's at stake with its decline, it is Atlanta. New condominium projects are scattered across this city's downtown. One of the most striking is the Atlantic Residences, up the street from a faux Arc de Triomphe, a man-made pond, an Ikea and a Target. A sign around the 46-story tower reads: "Luxury residences from the $400s to $800s" ... Spectacular penthouse from $1 million." Just a few months before the building's planned opening, however, the appetite for such excess is disappearing. (See 50 authentic...
Speaking of dances, my favorite piece is 'Bees,' because you go through a dramatic arc that involves a dance and a tragic death scene. How do you bring your dramatic flair to these? Because I write them, I already have a tone in my head. I occasionally make the males scream and suffer about their deaths, because I assume that nobody wants to die. Even in mating...
...teacher who hires Bachmann as an assassin, Bachmann pauses to urinate by the side of the road: “With birdie in hand, he looked up at the stars. Eternity, eternity, said a Nietzschean murmur within him, how big you are! O starlight that floods the cosmos (his arc grew shorter and shorter)! Heaven and earth, clouds and space! said Bachmann aloud. Not so loud! Halftan called.” These are the moments when Bachmann’s personal experiences of the war and his mental trauma become beautiful and disturbing without dwelling on the historical, social...
...It’s also the medium to which auteurs have the luxury to return after a career of successful feature films—an opportunity, perhaps, to experiment with scripts and styles that wouldn’t necessarily sustain a feature or that better suit a shorter narrative arc. In the auteur’s case, however, the rules of the young entrepreneur still apply; short films, in themselves, are not commercially viable. The chance for exposure, then, comes in much the same form that it does for the short story: a collection. In 2006, a series...
...Jerusalem to Philadelphia (oddly, one of the relic capitals of the world), Manseau recounts his journey to find religious objects that have captivated the faithful for centuries and his encounters with modern pilgrims along the way. This includes a French mortician who analyzes the charred remains of Joan of Arc; a Sri Lankan tour guide who makes his living at the Temple of the Holy Tooth; a Syrian boy whose playground includes the al-Jami al-Kabir mosque in Damascus; and a Pakistani man who, when asked if he felt closer to Muhammad after beholding the Prophet's purported whiskers...