Word: eviler
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Sarah and Todd are extramarital sex waiting to happen. But the course of hot, forbidden lust never did run smooth, and Perrotta throws in its way, among other things, a recently paroled child molester named Ronnie McGorvey. An evil, curdled mama's boy, Ronnie, in a perverse way, seems to personify the selfish desires and stunted soul of the suburbs. The people we meet in Little Children are bewildered, frozen in shock at the tepidity of the present, even though they have worked their whole lives to get exactly where they...
...prewar briefing on Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons of mass destruction is instructive. According to Woodward, the President isn't impressed with the evidence-but this doesn't seem to cause him a moment of doubt about his mission to rid the world of Dr. Evil. No, he's concerned about the looming sales job. "Nice try," he tells John McLaughlin, the deputy CIA director. "I don't think this is quite-it's not something that Joe Public would understand or would gain a lot of confidence from...
...while standing on the line which divides those who look to narrative art for a structured vision of the world from those who just like movies for the fun of it, Kael comes down hard for the fun whenever possible. She thinks that all education in film studies is evil because it gets between a movie and that mythical "response" of the viewer. She thus lacks any consistent set of critical criteria, or any goals for art broader than immediate pleasure. (She even brags about seldom changing her opinion on a film after she has seen it once). The only...
...while standing on the line which divides those who look to narrative art for a structured vision of the world from those who just like movies for the fun of it, Kael comes down hard for the fun whenever possible. She thinks that all education in film studies is evil because it gets between a movie and that mythical "response" of the viewer. She thus lacks any consistent set of critical criteria, or any goals for art broader than immediate pleasure. (She even brags about seldom changing her opinion on a film after she has seen it once). The only...
...across decades of time and continents of space--The Known World is a glorious, enthralling, tangled root ball of a book--but always returning to the story's tragic core. Slowly, terrifyingly, it dawns on us that although Henry has his free papers, he's the product of an evil world, and his soul will never be free. When it was published last summer, Jones' book seemed like a very mature first novel. With the benefit of eight months' reflection, we can say that The Known World is a masterpiece that deserves a place in the American literary canon...