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...prolific work: “Stanislavsky’s famed (if essentially hypothetical) system, then, was and is the dissection of the motives and emotions of the character. One hundred years of actors have wasted their time in this pointless pursuit.” He proceeds to expound on why the emphasis on character over plot is a flawed method of theater making, but he never successfully validates his vitriolic reading of Stanislavski. To take on a figure so influential, one must do more than simply excoriate his work, but Mamet has an unfortunate tendency to make overstated claims without...
...there's anyone who would be able to expound on the intricate economy of Lady Gaga's music career (and the ramifications of her outrageous fashion choices on her business), it seems like we'll all have to turn to legendary Ec10 Caesar N. Gregory Mankiw...
...Harvard, where McNamara enjoyed a brief stint as a Business School professor and later often returned to expound on the lessons learned from his own failures, colleagues reflecting on his death earlier this week pointed to a more nuanced legacy—that of a tragic, repentant, and even admirable...
...identifying reader (and sometimes, in my more self-indulgent and pompous moments, a self-proclaimed bibliophile), ever since. If I recall rightly, in that notorious article, you declare, “solitary pleasure is...the only real reason for reading.” You eviscerate the straw men who expound reading’s defense in such terms as Daniel Adler’s high-handedly repulsive “we can learn only from our ‘betters’” (the authors of the great books of literature), or Arnold Weinstein’s laughably...
...good way, an offshoot of Hillary's own genius, which has been unfairly suppressed by domestic horrors like cooking dinner. In actuality, she seems to treat motherhood as a part time job. But as grating as the arrogant, insecure Hillary is, she's genuine. Listening to her expound on how over-medicated our society is, you may recognize how easy it would be for a defense of one's child to serve as blinders to the truth...