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...second time, I returned to Holden to write my thesis on post-war “breakdown?? novels. Holden's voice, along with Esther Greenwood's and Deborah Blau's, was in my head for months. But read alongside other Cold War novels of anxiety and depression, Holden became something far more than the sum of his choice words: he was the first of several young protagonists to describe what it was to feel lost and aloof—and to be treated by the medical establishment for having such feelings. It?...
...Boston is ‘overflowing’ with culture is the shallow vessel in which it is contained?”) Others propose that the very idea of an intellectual nucleus is outdated, with the collective energy of e-mail, blogs, and Twitter heralding a more diffuse power breakdown??in high-school-chemistry-speak, more plum pudding than Bohr model...
...history, and it doesn’t help much to be reading the unceasing back-and-forth on editorial pages, either. The media has gleefully stoked the public obsession with this election, with 24-hour coverage of delegate breakdowns and speculation about Hillary’s “breakdown?? and McCain’s “affair...
...motivation for suddenly deciding to seek out his terrible fate. Many of Pearce’s shortcomings are thanks to Fergus’ script, which expects the audience to make far-fetched connections and bestow unearned significance to directionless scenes. For example, Starks’s near-breakdown??in which the character locks himself in a motel room for days with a loaded gun—is painfully rushed. Unfinished and unmoving, the pivotal sequence hardly illuminates Starks’ motivation or advances the narrative. The strongest aspect of “First Snow?...
...issues left unresolved before her death. Almodovar celebrates women. He is a master at portraying the nuances of the fairer sex, made evident in previous films such as “All About My Mother” (1999) and “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown?? (1988). With “Volver,” he focuses on the bonds between women. As is typical in his films, the males in the film are weak and pathetic, while females, strong and resilient, overcome whatever situations life hands them. In one of the film?...