Word: egos
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Wray lets Will tell his own story half the time, and gives the other half to Detective Ali Lateef, who’s leading the subway-centric manhunt. The novel is ripe with divergent identities: Will and his alter ego, “Lowboy”; his mother Yda and Lowboy’s name for her, “Violet;” Lateef and his given name, “Rufus White.” The alternating perspectives of the narrative themselves constitute a sort of double identity, mirroring the dynamic between the world of institutions above ground...
...Neon Bible” tracks tempt audiences into forgiving the album’s thematic and lyrical heavy-handedness. But their stage personae are similarly overwrought, and songs such as “Surf City Eastern Block” (which has Butler assuming an alter ego) maintain a distance between listeners and the band. During a stadium-show performance of “Neighborhood #3 (Power Out),” several of the group’s many members line up at the front of the stage to rock out. The moment calls to mind Bruce Springsteen...
...shucks, flyby’s ego granted Doug’s group points for this response...
...ego and just wants to be a contributor on the team,” Walsh says of Douglas...
...most gripping and startling moments.Snyder’s cast performs smoothly and largely carries the tone of the story—unabashed, raw violence coupled with an underlying black humor. Close behind Haley for outstanding performance in the film is Morgan, who appears to us as his alter-ego The Comedian in a series of flashbacks. Several other cast members invoke their characters with the appropriate panache and emotional range, notably Billy Crudup as Dr. Manhattan and Patrick Wilson as Dan Dreiberg, the former Nite Owl II.The casting of British actor Matthew Goode (“Brideshead Revisited?...