Word: aura
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...provided by Steven Zaillian, writer-director of Searching for Bobby Fischer) and the maturity in himself he felt he needed. Onlookers say he never sat down, never retreated to his trailer, and that he one day made an astonishing 51 setups. Yet always he moved in an aura of "austere calm . . . a man at peace with himself," in the words of co-producer Gerald Molen. At some point, impeccable professionalism simply merged with obsession...
This is not to say that this situation will last forever. Maybe the Harvard aura will wear on him, too. After all, as a hotshot young coach, Restic nearly accepted an offer to coach the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles before deciding to spend his twilight years in Dillon Field House...
...felt banners that parody the soppy semiabstract devotional art of the all-but-forgotten Sister Corita Kent, a liberal nun of the '60s. I AM USELESS TO THE CULTURE, BUT GOD LOVES ME, one of | Kelley's banners reads. He is as deeply immersed in the religious aura of his infancy, pre-Vatican II, as any Chicano postmodernist doing lurid Madonnas...
Real life in this novel is even more complex, funny and fascinating than its mock fairy-tale frame. Atwood's latest novel involves three college acquaintances' entanglements with evil: Roz, the daughter of successful Jewish immigrants; Tony, a historian of warfare; and Charis, a believer in aura and the virtues of fruit. In telling their stories, Atwood takes a stab at the rationales of many such modern fairy tales, examining contemporary female stereotypes as well as issues of personal and moral responsibility. Her heroines have to fight for what is theirs, and often seem to lose what little they...
...history. It is often at this point that fiction begins to enter into the picture. Embarrassing realities are suppressed by all characters on all sides, and it is Zenia's particular expertise to unearth these and turn them against those who had considered her a friend. Zenia's aura is big enough and bad enough for her to signal inevitable ruin for any hapless prospect on her list...