Word: drawning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though the central story-line encompassing the relationship of Carla and Danny is interesting, it is drawn out and poorly intermingled with underdeveloped sub-stories. Carla's sisters are presented as dysfunctional daughters, at least in the eyes of their mother who describes Caroline as a "dedicated underachiever" and Heather as a "Gay workaholic." Both characters have the potential to make substantial contributions to the main theme but do not. Each is simply thrown into the mixing bowl by director Gary Marshall, adding a hint of flavor but Zero texture...
...simple plot provides a sturdy framework for Spanidou's meticulous examination of her characters. Each is drawn with complexity, such that each of their actions creates further dept. None are either wholly likable or wholly unlikable, and as Fear switches from viewpoint to viewpoint and situation to situation characters become more and then less appealing. Much of the time, for example, the reader is likely to sympathize with Anna. Yet when Spanidou's narrative takes on Val's, the mother's or the father's perspective, it is more difficult to sympathize with Anna...
...going on during apartheid." Though the Doveys have deep roots in South Africa, subtle pressures from the apartheid regime eventually prompted her parents to move to Australia when she was three. From then on, Lindi's family shuttled back and forth between the two countries about every two years, drawn back by her parents' desire to help South Africa and pushed away by the country's volatile political situation. The family was trapped in a vicious circle of constant relocation and Dovey's mother notes that early on these frequent moves left her daughter with a sense of loss...
...fact, while the lawsuit was filed three years ago, the Web site is only one-and-a-half years old. Therefore the site, toward which most media attention has been drawn, was not a central part of the initial case...
...this all a while back, but apart from the fact that the jack goes somewhere under the car and is somehow made to lift the car up, I didn't remember much. So I consulted the owner's manual, which is of course written, or rather drawn, in such a way that, whenever possible, coherent sentences are substituted with a shoddy drawing...