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...engrossing enough to watch this twoheaded beast of a police force at work, which is what Hanson lets us do for a bit, before the appropriately twisty plot really gets under way. The story itself is impeccably paced, a well-orchestrated series of cover-ups and discoveries, as Exley skillfully and stubbornly cuts his way through the many layers of the blue shield and those who profit by it (like a man who runs a service of call girls cut to resemble movie starlets). Surprises and not so teensy-weensy ethical decisions are sprinkled throughout as we wonder whether Exley...
...famed one is paradoxically as naked as an exile dispossessed. The celebrity enters into a powerful and potentially dangerous force field, a relationship with masses of people gone slightly insane; sometimes he encounters that side of human nature that forms lynch mobs: the beast. A surreal dynamic goes to work. The famous may find their fortunes held hostage by the moods and attention spans of people they do not know. The unstable affections of fandom have a life of their own and acquire an unpredictable but nearly absolute power over one's personal and professional fate. Fame becomes a form...
...suppose that is simply the nature of the beast, though. We get so caught up in what we're doing, both during Orientation Week and throughout our years at the College, that only during the summers do we realize how remarkable (hopefully) a year it had been. But while this may be true of most Harvard experiences, even of all novel undertakings, it is most poignant during the first nine days we spend here, tiptoeing around, looking for a building called Vanserg. The entirety of the school seems to hit us at once, while we are still trying our shoes...
Anon, to sudden silence won, In fancy they pursue The dream-child moving through a land Of wonders wild and new, In friendly chat with bird or beast-- And half believe it true. --Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...
What Parker and Stone want most, it seems, is to achieve the brilliant, bizarre randomness of The Simpsons. In one episode the boys encounter a mountain beast that weaves baskets. One of its arms is a stalk of celery; one of its legs is a full-figure replica of Step by Step star Patrick Duffy. Parker and Stone are not without broad imaginations, but South Park ultimately comes off as just so many out-of-nowhere jokes and images that don't take us anyplace...