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Perlstein’s greatest strength is his ability to craft a good narrative—even if, at 516 pages, Before the Storm is a whopper. In the book’s opening chapters Perlstein nicely depicts the Arizona cowboy milieu from which Goldwater emerged, even as he reinforces the emphasis the stately senator placed on duty throughout his life. It’s also a narrative that expertly explores the political landscape of the times. Despite his own leftist views, Perlstein carefully manages to leave his personal political biases out of the story, giving the reader an enjoyable...
...your chances when you pony up your money and ask him something. He holds no degree in conversational arts, nor does he flaunt any other credentials that lend weight to the quality of his operation. He does, as mentioned above, possess the book-smarts to craft articulate and lucid answers to the questions put to him. Yet his ideas, frankly, are not that interesting. There is little reason for the intelligent viewer to sit through another discourse on the problems of our society’s increasing addiction to artificial realities. Consider...
...Harvard Square MBTA station, Rodolfo, Marcello, an artist (Lee M. Poulis ’02), Colline, a philosopher (Alexander Prokhorov) and Schaunard, a musician (David Howse) are inhabitants of one of the busiest and most affluent parts of Boston yet, they have little employment opportunity as artists; their craft is created for and enjoyed only by the leisure class, which derives its leisure from the exploitation of the underclass...
...mail, phone and fax consultations, Youstin has a solution: vacuum-pack the chicken, for a small additional cost, and keep it fresh enough to survive the extra four days of shipping. From the corporate headquarters, Youstin can quickly access the company's experts and key decision makers to craft a timely fix. Explains her boss, international COO Anthony Pavese: "We are ground zero. We have centralized the information base. We can't just jump on a plane every time we need something somewhere...
...Chinese hero hotdogs, even as he was in the act of rushing serum back to Shanghai in order to save a dying orphan and sought to take a shortcut by slicing through the People's Airspace that was feloniously occupied at that instant by the nose of the American craft...