Word: excepts
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...travels to Egypt, Israel, Palestine, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Pakistan, speaking to and occasionally learning from street vendors, pundits, schoolkids, government officials and U.S. soldiers. To most of them he poses the simple question that is the movie's title. Will anyone tell him? Hey, ya never know. (Except...
...average American church is strangely out of tune with the Pope’s sentiment. American preachers seldom mention animal rights, except as evidence of the excesses of secular radicalism. National polls show an inverse correlation between church attendance and support for animal rights. Churches celebrate the blessing of the animals on the feast day of Saint Francis of Assisi, and then largely ignore animal ethics for the rest of the year...
...pathetic, ridiculous cliché.” I’m not so sure of the extent to which Snow is conscious of these clichés. Perhaps that’s because Snow has assumed a lifestyle that’s not far off from Rakowitz’ (except for the homicide bit). In recent years, Snow has gained notoriety for being as elusive as he is shocking. He doesn’t have a cell phone or a computer, has purposely impaled his doorbell with a screwdriver so as not to be bothered, and uses a periscope perched...
...When I heard the New York band’s eponymous 2004 LP in the summer of 2006, it sounded positively Californian, except edgier than the Beach Boys and possibly more harmonic than The Mamas and the Papas. I was ashamed to be two years late in my discovery, yet at the same time, excited—I figured that their second album was imminent...
...become uncompromisingly honest.Although simplicity is a key component of the volume, Paley is still a very technically competent poet. The poems have no commas or periods, giving the reader the sense that the collection represents Paley’s internal monologue, a continued sequence of thought without any punctuation except the occasional pause. Great care has been taken with the pauses, as well: Paley uses line breaks and spaces within the lines to create varied silences and to modulate the relationship between ideas. This attention to silence lends great power to Paley’s use of the conversational register...