Word: dissected
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Internet, the endless search for the perfect live bootleg of a favorite song offers welcome procrastination from life’s responsibilities. Why one becomes so obsessed with certain artists and devotes hours to the pursuit of their music is a complicated affair to dissect. But Mendy, one of the characters in Terrence McNally’s The Lisbon Traviata, offers some insight when he explains his obsession with Maria Callas: “Opera doesn’t reject me, the real world does...
...student who spends most of his time organzing his CD collection and dreaming of being Conan O’Brien’s sidekick. Oxman follows Scooby through his nonexistent college search and his banal homelife. And here is Solondz at his best, using vicious situations and dialogues to dissect the world of the suburban middle-class. Many of the scenes revolve around the Livingston dinner table where Scooby, his two younger brothers, Brady, a football player worried about his school reputation, and Mikey, an inquisitive, petulant child dying for the recognition of his parents convene every evening...
Though it is a funny and touching story, the success of it still lies in Schlink’s ability to dissect human motivation surrounding love. The man’s obsession with his wife’s past, which he slowly uncovers, is at first ambiguously displayed, but eventually Schlink gives us reason for his journey: his own insecurity, his newfound feelings of inadequacy and his flawed, human curiosity. These motivations don’t appear selfish through the careful eyes of Schlink. Rather, they seem pointedly human...
...Brady [Merchant]—are really good three-point shooters,” Prasse-Freeman says. “That means that even if there’s a shot blocker or even if they clog the lane on us, we’re hopefully able to dissect defenses that...
...someone they would like to play. “We trust each other’s tastes and opinions. I defer to the music directors of specific shows because they know their music better than I do. I can appreciate what is quality, but I can’t dissect it like they can,” Baudouin says...