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...course, limitations in genre or character type don’t have to equal boring movies. In the hands of a skilled writer, such limitations often yield greater creativity, as writers come up with new twists on old conventions. In Cusack’s case, witness Gross Pointe Blank, which took the romantic comedy genre (in which Cusack most comfortably walks) and tweaked it, hilariously, by making Cusack’s leading man an assassin. Unfortunately, for every inspired screenplay, there are hundreds of others that are content to play by the rules, re-staging old scenes and re-hashing...
...Pakistan as an ally. Fewer still knew where Pakistan was. After the war, America turned its back. Aid and military supplies were cut off. My friends back home were shocked by this. I, living in America, was less surprised. In America, the murky, unknown places of the world are blank screens: stories of evil can be projected on them with as little difficulty as stories of good...
...madrasahs and those of prep schools. But since the last Afghan war, Pakistan has been struggling toward a compromise between these groups. Such compromises evolve slowly, and are nourished by stability. In acting now, Americans must consider the consequences of projecting a war film onto what is not a blank screen at all. They must have compassion as they weigh the impact of polarizing millions of people in the name of justice. In Pakistan, my friends and family are frightened, as they should be when the most powerful military in the world is sent to do a task best accomplished...
...attacks, already started, will get worse. We may have to hide our Muslim identities just as Jewish people had to hide theirs during the war. Fanatic Muslims here and elsewhere hate us too because we are "polluted" by ideas of liberty, fairness and justice. Both sides will demand blank checks of loyalty that we will not be able to give them. Because we know too much...
...something from scratch, I have so many things that I’m working on—files and files of half-finished and unfinished poems—so I look at them. And then that sets something else off. I very rarely sit down in front of a blank piece of paper and say, “What shall I write about?” It’s something ongoing...