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...Most Ingenious Promotion for a New Album Rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg was arrested for being an accomplice to murder, enhancing his aura among gangsta-music lovers. Suggested ad line for Doggystyle: Buy this or we'll shoot a bystander...
...Pugilist at Rest by Thom Jones. This collection of short stories about damaged men poses important questions: Is courage a virtue, or is it simply testosterone poisoning? Is God just a neurochemical event, part of the tantalizing aura that precedes an epileptic fit? Jones is an ex-Marine and former amateur prizefighter who puts a wallop in his prose...
...unlocked in three hours. Unfortunately for those kidnapped, they have all been exposed to a deadly nerve agent that will kill them within two hours. The only hope of survival is to find the antidotes scattered throughout the booby-trapped house. Between the creation of a hauntingly suspenseful aura, the continuation of “Saw”’s novel premise and the unfolding of countless twists and turns, “Saw II” is the type of movie that will have the average moviegoer intrigued until the very end, even though the build...
Between the creation of a hauntingly suspenseful aura, the continuation of “Saw”’s novel premise and the unfolding of countless twists and turns, “Saw II” is the type of movie that will have the average moviegoer intrigued until the very end, even though the build is far from perfect. The shock value of the film—in the first scene, a man’s survival is contingent upon his slicing into his own eye (a cutting homage to “Un Chien Andalou?...
...marvels are disposable; 2) innovations are not always wonderful; 3) the world is round and time is circular; human nature is constant, but 4) may be damaged--or what is worse, humiliated--by novelties, which (like '70s neckties or television in any decade) may have about them an aura of imbecility, leading to 5) the Paradox of Retrograde Progress. Television is a Faustian bargain (a dazzling technology that induces dullness and even moronism), and the Internet has the same ominous tendencies. It is not a bad idea to mistrust the omnivorous vulgarity of innovation, even its (paradoxical) death instinct. Novelty...