Word: arcs
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Every Presidential campaign has a narrative arc. That's a fancy way of saying it has a beginning, a middle and an end. We always cover that story, and this year was no exception. In fact, in October 2006--more than two years before Election Day and four months before Barack Obama even declared he was running--we forecast the final chapter: Joe Klein's prescient cover story, "Why Barack Obama Could Be the Next President...
...this campaign cycle, we made a special effort to explore and analyze the ideas that shaped that narrative arc. In elections, ideas matter--they are the themes that influence how voters feel about the candidates. We did cover stories on "How Much Does Experience Matter?," on "How the Right Went Wrong," on "How the Democrats Got Religion," on "The Real Meaning of Patriotism," on "Why the Economy Is Trumping Race," on "Does Temperament Matter?" Even more than specific policy issues, these are the ideas and the discussions that voters use to make up their minds. And so we considered...
...trouble with this story, like all senseless tragedies, is that it has no arc. We cannot realistically hope for some resulting parable of triumph over adversity. We can root for them. We can pray for them. But only Julia and Jennifer Hudson will know if redemption finally comes...
...director and writer at The Ohio State University in 1997. Ebert has also gone back to write an additional "reconsideration" of a half-dozen select Scorsese titles. Even for those who consider themselves devout fans of the Scorsese canon, Scorsese By Ebert helps readers to see the overriding arc that connects his various titles - the themes of guilt, sin, ego and hope that surface time and again...
...cigarette-smoking, and drank Boone's on occasion, but never committed any major transgressions. He was a good child, brought up by a pair of strict Catholic parents who instilled in him a top-notch moral code. It's a square story through and through. In its story arc, The Longest Trip Home mimics Marley & Me - a life well-lived that requires a death to deliver its message about how to live one's life well. Nothing new here at all, though many readers will see themselves in the book - everyday Joes who win, lose, fight with their parents...