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...engage his reader with the everyday oddness of Israel. "I would call it subjective realism," he says of his bizarre storylines. "I am trying to show things the way they feel." Overwhelmingly, in Keret's fiction, things feel edgy. Throughout Missing Kissinger, there is the sense of the dark slap-shtick of a country where, through dumb luck, a coffee in the wrong café could spell death by suicide bomber...
...brilliance with which it is played by its perfectly cast actors. For a very long time we wonder if what's unfolding on the screen is just a set of very curious coincidences instead of what it obviously is: a carefully rigged scheme by Jorgen, who is keeping a dark and tragic secret from his family. When it is revealed, After the Wedding turns into a number of things: a contemplation of mortality for one thing, and perhaps even more important, a revelation of the exquisite mixture of motives that drive people though the circumstantial exigencies of life...
...revel in. It's the sense these movies convey that money - the giving and withholding of it - is a powerful melodramatic instrument, something that can dominate (and warp) lives. You need mature actors to play in pictures like these and you need someone like Bier to impart a dark, but still enviable, sheen to upscale life. And, more important, to penetrate mere stylishness to find the authentic drama beneath the handsome surfaces. After the Wedding unfolds and enfolds like those old-fashioned novels on which those classic movies were so often based. It speaks the universal language of high romance...
...since cooled things down. Today, however, the heat is external. In the decades since Allen birthed the Microsoft mouse, hardware competition has roared. In addition to OQO, Sony and Samsung have released mini laptops in the same $2,000 range as the FlipStart. And Apple looms as a dark horse...
...came upon dozens of websites--most created by older women partial to lace motifs and wheezy background hymns. "I was just not feeling the teddy bears and hearts," says Andrews. She launched her own site, WithPurpose com in 2004 because "I thought there must be others like me." Her dark-lipsticked smile might draw readers in, but her blunt postings about life in a small congregation keeps them coming back. She guesses that the 200 or so PWs who regularly visit her forums feel that sites like hers "really eliminate the isolationism that we feel. I'm struggling through...