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...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...
...created and wrote most of Babylon 5, which was one of the first TV shows to have a long, multi-season story arc planned out in advance. Now shows like The Wire or Lost are doing the same thing. Are you happy with the show's legacy?We really opened the doors for a lot of shows that followed, creating the notion of a multi-year arc, which really hadn't been done before. You always used to hit the reset button at the end of an episode, because there was a sense that audiences couldn't follow stories across...
...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...
...surrounding area. “My great hope is to make this a space that in some ways embodies the art of poetry—a place where people are writing poetry, reading poetry, researching poetry, and coming up with theories on poetry—the whole arc of the art form,” she said at the reception. “Poetry is an atmosphere that people on campus are definitely involved in,” says Alexander J. Berman ’10, a member of The Harvard Advocate’s poetry board...
...Assassination Vacation” and her latest, “The Wordy Shipmates”—have dealt in her rich knowledge and extensive research of American history.“Assassination Vacation,” her last book, followed the arc of Vowell’s pilgrimage to the sites of three of America’s four presidential assassinations—those of Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, and William McKinley—along with equally relevant and macabre side trips. Amidst the American historical non sequiturs for which she seems to have an encyclopedic knowledge, Vowell...