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...Regardless of what we adults think, we aren’t the intended audience,” she wrote. “Roald Dahl believed that it was the duty of every author of children’s books to conspire with children against adults. With her books, J.K. Rowling has formed a powerful alliance with our children...
...that goes for big laughs. It offers, instead, a steady mutter of eccentric situations and, better still, a whole bunch of glum and occasionally desperate characters whose depressive natures are hinted at but never boringly explicated. They appear and disappear rather casually in the story, which the director John Dahl (Red Rock West, The Last Seduction) paces expertly. His film moves not with the speed of light, but the speed of life - a little bit hesitantly, a little bit digressively. He's not ramrodding us into submission, not force-feeding us a lot of big melodramatic scenes. Stuff keeps happening...
...military are directly attributable to the press and Congress. The press has kept up a drumbeat of negative, antimilitary coverage, and Congress has acted as a willing accomplice. Both strive to undermine this country's ability to defend itself and are determined to see the U.S. fail. Rodney Dahl, Bend, Oregon...
...Like Roald Dahl and Shel Silverstein and Philip Roth and T.C. Boyle. I wanted to write something I would want to read...
Simon Rich ’06-’07 knows a great recipe for Brussel sprouts, loves Roald Dahl, and hates dogs. He is also modest.“I just sit down every day and just write a ton of stuff,” he says. “Most of it’s terrible. I don’t think I’m very funny in person.”Jon Stewart would beg to differ.Rich, former president of the Harvard Lampoon (which, due to a rivalry that even Rich doesn’t understand...