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...boyfriend for him, his inner monologue is about the Bolsheviks: “But one thing he had learned from the Bolsheviks: history helps those who help themselves...Mark couldn’t get over what a bunch of fuckers the Bolsheviks were. They yelled ‘Fire?? in a crowded room, as Ulinksy once put it, and then took over. Well, Mark was a fucker too.” When the Vice President (an unnamed but depicted Al Gore) loses the 2000 election, Keith retracts his marriage proposal to his then-girlfriend Jillian; he cannot conceive...
...favorite videos, made by Jonas Odell, accompanied a song called “Ali in the Jungle (version 2)” by a British band called The Hours. The completely animated video adopts the excessive, faux-Victorian, theatrical aesthetic embodied most prominently in the U.S. by The Arcade Fire??think old-timey machines, flickering projector light, and skeletons in top hats. The song is shameless in its attempts to inspire, with soaring lyrics like “Everybody gets knocked down / How quick are you gonna get up?”, but I am only slightly embarrassed...
...John Parr’s “St. Elmo’s Fire??—A simple classic...
Negativity persisted, but popular consensus was that “Goblet of Fire?? had upped the stakes for complexity in the series. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures Maria Tatar published an article in The New York Times in late 2001 that contained traces of skepticism, calling the Harry Potter series “children’s ‘classics’ for our time,” if not “classics for all time...
Undine moves in with her parents in Brooklyn, a step that particularly stings because she had erased her past—by telling a magazine that her family died in a fire??when she first started moving up in the world. Throughout the next several months, Undine faces pregnancy, welfare, and the consequences of severing her past. She is also arrested for buying heroin for her grandmother...