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...course reporters have worked as intelligence agents. But to do so endangers other reporters and violates journalism's quaint, faint imperative to work for only one paycheck and report even awkward truths. The counterbalancing urgency--biological warfare, for Pete's sake--makes Truell's decision too easy, so that in the last chapters a paunch begins to show on what was a taut and enjoyable job of writing...
...scorn for the other discipline. An engineering student, who asked not to be identified "for fear of reprisals," said of English students and their ilk that "they think they're changing the world, but where would they be without their word processors?" One applied math major, who was similarly faint-hearted about his quote being cited, characterized his more verbally oriented colleagues as being "self-indulgent, non-rigorous, and generally without use." While most would not go this far, it is probable that, deep down in their heart of hearts, many science majors have similar, if less strongly expressed, feelings...
...have just entered the socially conscious zone, where certain ice-cream lovers expect Ben & Jerry's Homemade not only to clean up the lake but to rid marshmallows of their faint animal by-products too. And, whoa. In this case, anyway, Ben & Jerry's had the answer: it uses a substitute for marshmallow gelatin, which comes from bones. Voila, a loyal customer...
Technically, the lighting was masterful. The play begins in the dark during the robbery; as the viewer's eyes adjust, the scene becomes clearer and the viewer can make out the furtive burglar by faint light from a window. While stuck in pitch black, the viewer empathizes with Ata and her fear: however, this is the only time in the play one feels any empathy for any of the characters. However, the dramatic silences were violated by the annoying and incessant buzzing hum of the lights...
...paintings served this obsessive narrative, beginning with small portraits of imaginary generals and developing into 12-ft.-long scrolls, done in watercolor and collage on joined sheets of paper. Darger had no formal training, and as far as is known he never visited a museum, although there are faint signs that he might have seen reproductions of Gauguin. He made it all up as he went along, according to the dictates of his compulsion. Since he couldn't draw the human body, he traced his muffin heroines and victims from children's books, comic strips and advertisements. He would then...