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...somehow it all works. The faceless nanoswarms have an authentically surreal creepiness to them (they'll look great in the inevitable movie), but the real star of the show is Crichton's intricate plotting and flawless pacing, which deliver the necessary shocks and surprises at the precise intervals necessary to keep readers riveted until the more or less satisfying denouement. It lacks a human heart, but Prey is a relentlessly efficient machine that grips and doesn't let go. Don't try to resist. There's nothing you can do. --By Lev Grossman
...President Lawrence H. Summers reportedly denied tenure to two 54-year-old professors, contradicting the unanimous recommendations of their departments, stunning their colleagues and leaving no room for appeal. The excessive secrecy in every decision makes it easy for those who are denied tenure to point fingers at a faceless “ad hoc committee,” a groups that wield immense power advising the president on tenure recommendations but has no public accountability...
...members of this union for film extras once had visions of movie stardom. They drifted to Bombay from all over India. But after years of futile auditions, rejections and bit parts, they ended up as extras, part of the background crowd in a musical number, or among the faceless masses in a street scene. Extras, if they find work, will make seven dollars a day. (The highest paid Bollywood stars make a million dollars a picture.) They are willing to put up with incredible hardship?sleeping on pavements, hunger, illness?rather than return in defeat to their villages. Eventually, they...
...matter what the white historians might need to believe. Sacagawea was not the primary hero of this story either, no matter what the Native American historians and I might want to believe. The story of Lewis and Clark is also the story of the approximately 45 nameless and faceless first- and second-generation European Americans who joined the journey, then left or completed it, often without monetary or historical compensation. Considering the time and place, I imagine those 45 were illiterate, low-skilled laborers subject to managerial whims and 19th century downsizing. And it is most certainly the story...
...missed the Internet boom and its resplendent wonders, this one-part exciting and two-parts vertiginous lifestyle has been conveniently encapsulated at the Blue Room. This bustling Kendall Square restaurant is just two T stops away, but with an unremarkable décor and unplaceable cuisine, it seems a faceless world unto itself...