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...three children too, but no matter. Montage: standard affair tropes (stolen kisses, seedy hotel rooms, and the like). Careening towards the gossipy tell-all à la Jessica Cutler’s autobiographical novel “The Washingtonienne,” that other Beltway narrative, the narrative arc of “Necessary Sins” then tacks sharply away. After Lescaze’s wife discovers his affair, he leaves his family for Darling and she realizes that life lived together is a step down from the mythic heights of romance. Enter tragic life obstacles. As Darling?...
...performance is nothing but personal. You get on Idol by singing; you win Idol by telling a story. Some do it through the songs: last year's winner, Taylor Hicks, was a master of that forlorn genre, the cornball story-song (In the Ghetto, Levon). Some make a story arc of their performances, like Clarkson, who grew over Season 1 from wallflower to leather-lunged sensation. Others make themselves the narrative. Season 3 winner Fantasia Barrino, for instance, had the story of teen baby-mamma who made good and subtly underscored it with performances like the soulful lullaby Summertime...
...hilarious--comics on the Web is called Achewood. It's about a loose community of creatures--cats, a bear, a squirrel, a baby otter, a few robots--who are variously wealthy, clinically depressed, psychotic and gay. It swings, sometimes disconcertingly, from funny to sad and back. In one story arc a wealthy pleasure-loving cat named Ray dies and goes to hell, where he's forced to drive a 1982 Subaru Brat and gets drunk with legendary bluesman Robert Johnson at a Best Western. This kind of thing never happens to Garfield. The characterization in Achewood is so thorough...
Indiana Jones, that prized pop artifact (64, in Harrison Ford years), has a fourth film in the works and perhaps a new lady on his arm. Here's the arc of Indy's dating history...
...SCHOOL THE HISTORIES By Herodotus We owe most of what we know about Thermopylae--and that line in the movie about fighting in the shade--to Herodotus, the "father of history." In The Histories, he recounts the whole arc of the war with the Persians, whose arrogance proved to be their undoing...