Word: decentering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Danny (Courtland Mead) are entrusted to care for over a long winter, and 'Stephen King?s The Shining' is no different from the standard movie-of-the-week that reminds us?in a third of the time?just how destructive substance abuse can be to an otherwise decent family." BOOKS . . . THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THE SON: You needn?t be a Christian to find Norman Mailer's new novel (Random House; 242 pages; $22) purporting to be a first-person memoir written by Jesus a dubious and ultimately failed enterprise. Conceivably, imaginative literature at its highest pitch could do what...
...mafia power that only the Corliones could revive. In Puzio's restive family we see all that Lansky and his pals could never capture: the tranquility of a mob network secure in its proficiency, efficiently camouflaging day to day bloodbaths with unequaled Sicilian suavity. As any half-decent concilliari would surely note, the movie's theme--family and duty--is the Sicilian equivalent of the American dream, bound up in that inimitable opening line: "I believe in America. America has made me what I am today...
...that point, I lacked focus entirely. I had done a decent amount of work, but it wasn't coming together," he says...
...hatch plots, smell danger and generally enact the violent and paranoid predator from which the human race evolved and to which all great chess players return. What's left is playing percentages. Deep Blue refused to follow a strategy it recognized as a likely loser, even one that any decent grand master could see offered the best chances for victory due to, say, a blunder by a rattled foe. The machine just didn...
...right to "preach hate and bigotry on the town green" is explicitly guaranteed. I respect Mr. Tucker's freedom to opine on subjects that he clearly knows nothing about, but I wish that he wouldn't do it in the public medium of a newspaper--he is himself a decent argument against freedom of speech. --Joseph R. Varet...