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...heavy-handed, utterly sterile critique of greed and the postmodern loss of individual identity. Even if Volpi intended for the storyline to play second fiddle to his socio-political commentary, poor character development renders these auxiliaries distracting and unnecessary at best.The decidedly scientific lens that Volpi employs to dissect human nature, however, partly compensates for the novel’s lack of unique, believable characters; in “Season of Ash,” the unbendable laws of biology and genetics govern emotional decision-making. Volpi’s three women each dismiss emotion as an impractical figment...
...yard,” where any passerby could stop and listen. Then, it took place among art of a different kind—the modern visual pieces in the Sculpture Garden. As my ears learned new ways of making a piano and a trombone combine, my eyes tried to dissect what looked like a giant pulley—Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen’s Typewriter Eraser, Scale X, I later learned...
...like they say: Comedy is like a frog--you can dissect it, you learn how it works, but it will die in the process. So I never spend a lot of time analyzing why people respond to my work. But I think that it's just the joy, a passion for life, that I think has always been in my characters. Beyond that, I'm just grateful...
...recent panel discussion entitled “Sex, Real Estate, and Power” took a look at this side of the issue, attempting to dissect the implications of the current system...
...Many students concentrate in Government hoping to tackle questions like “What is justice?” or “Who should rule?” Unfortunately, their courses more often dissect queries like “Does Representative X follow the constituency’s preferences on policies A, B, and C?” That’s because many political scientists consider themselves solely scientists: They describe what is, not what should...