Word: characterizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Each story, for the most part, reads like a memoir of Moore's own life (hence the unusual story structures). Moore, a college English professor, fills the book with twenty- to forty-year-old women, generally scholars; one's an SAT consultant, another a professor, another a librarian and the...
"People Like That," while heart-wrenching and disturbing to read, is a powerful reminder of the value of life, the inscrutability of fate and the last bastion of human resource: hope. It counterbalances the bitter, estranged characters of the other stories with its forced entrance into the horror that can...
From the Manhattan skyline to Woody driveling anxiety to his shrink, the first moments of Antz suggest a film destined to become another prototypical Woody Allen movie, until Woody (now an ant named "Z") gets off the psycho-analyst's couch and walks into "The Colony." The makers of Antz...
But that's debatable: Frank Haddad (played byTony Shalhoub), Hubbard's FBI Lebanese-AmericanMuslim sidekick, is a very positive, humorous andhuman portrayal of the first major non-terroristMuslim character in a Hollywood movie. The mostpowerful moment in the film shows Haddad searchingthe internment center frantically for his 13year-old son...
My mom keeps telling me I need to get a nose job. I agree with her that my nose is rather large and disproportionate to the rest of my face, but God gave it to me and therefore I should love it. But, that gets hard to believe that when...