Word: delusionals
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Lloyd leaves the troupe to return to New York, and the second act turns the set around to follow the show from backstage as the nowdirectionless tour drags on. Lovers' quarrels storm, the casts' peculiarities begin to wreck havoc and the troupe's tensions creep on stage. The final act...
Merchants say the Clinton mandate would require them to spend an extra $18 billion a year on health insurance. And confidential, computer-aided studies by the White House estimate that the mandate would reduce employment growth by 300,000 to 600,000 jobs. Robert Moffit, a health-care expert at...
Afterwards, I would defend my actions by claiming that I was only trying to promote rational debate and show that marriage and religion "should not be taken seriously." Rather than censure me, the family should thank me for introducing rational discourse into the otherwise emotionally and politically charged atmosphere of...
Divining the demonic spirit of Socrates, i offer a quasi-genuine apology: advanced warning of incoherence and irrelevance. Enticing, isn't it? [Today is the last day of Reading Period, mind you. Or: this is being written in an agonizing moment of delusion, 4:30 in the a.m.]
These are old-fashioned tales, resurrecting issues like passivity vs. action and honesty vs. self-delusion, and relying on such time-honored devices as unreliable narrators, characters who turn out to be angels in disguise, and good old melodrama. Echoes of past masters -- Henry James and John O'Hara, for...