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...question is, Who gets to fill it? As soon as word of the atrocity began leaking out of the building--and it was on local TV 28 minutes after the first shot was fired--ownership of the story of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold was being fiercely contested. Were they natural-born killers? Or were they victims themselves--of bullying, of bad parenting, of mental illness? Were they sent by the devil, as some local Evangelical preachers argued? The killers had a version of their story too, which they told in the journals and videos they left behind. They believed...
...portrayals of both Bachmann’s condition and his defiant denial in the face of it constitute a disturbing and poignant undercurrent to the events of the novel.The dreamlike quality of the novel emanates from Lind’s ability to create sparse but symbolic landscapes and to fill them with characters whose simple exteriors incapsulate deeper historical echoes. Of course, the enchanting essence of the story is much more akin to that of the original Grimm stories than their doe-eyed Disney counterparts (it revolves around shocking wartime occurrences) but Lind’s gift for eccentric descriptions...
...scenes which ought to be most powerful have little impact, as with the death of Senyor, a character of focus for some odd pages: “The blacksmith gave the word for the cement man to commence; they forced open Senyor’s mouth and began to fill it. Senyor’s eyes were bulging; his chest rose twice as he retched.” This would be gruesome enough if such descriptions did not exist in virtually every passage of the novel. What comes next is more unusual. One old woman, refusing to spit...
...been measured with a ruler, but, in reality, Niisato determined the precise distances using only his eye. After completing the demonstration, he told his audience that he often fires his vessels almost four times in the kiln, and between each firing, he covers them with a traditional glaze to fill in the holes. Before developing the artistic ceramic technique that Niisato demonstrated last Monday, he created pieces designed for everyday use, like painted ceramic cups and bowls. But the exhibition in Boston consists of works that are not for everyday use and are instead to be viewed as pieces...
...marrying later and divorcing more frequently. They work longer hours than they ever had before and they have longer commutes. The number of pets started to boom right around the same time that these trends began to take off. This suggests that people are leaning on pets to fill the gap in social support mechanisms that earlier might have come from their families or tight-knit neighborhoods. This is why single people or childless couples might want to get a pet. There's just a lot more of those folks right now and they have the wherewithal financially...