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...case of Ragtime, the thread is Doctorow's narrative structure, and here it is the presence of John Reed as observer of and participant in history. But unlike Ragtime, Rosenstone's book need not be played slowly. Romantic Revolutionary is best read quickly, selectively, so as to glean the golden Russian wheat of Reed's life from the chaff of Rosenstone's analysis...
Ibsen also wrote Peer Gynt to lampoon Norwegian egoism, self-sufficiency (presented as the trolls' motto) and political character, and you can see why almost anyone would be content to glean what meaning he could from the play. But Director Peter Frisch, who seems to want to drive home every nuance, cut the script sufficiently, and Peer Gynt, which runs over three-and-a-half hours, emerges much longer than the dramatic interest warrants...
...basic problem with the play is that Bond never goes beyond the first and most obvious stage in developing his idea. So many characters are introduced in a relatively short time that we can glean only hints about their motivations. One of the most interesting characters, the young priest Kiro, who, in his search for enlightenment, is rebuffed by Basho and turns to Shogo, is also one of the least articulate characters and the reasons for his suicide are only partly explained...
...rescue us all from tedium. In history classes, especially, teachers began using films to replace the dry, outdated textbooks. Watching films became the painless way to absorb facts. But the films we watched were usually as boring as the textbooks we'd shoved aside. We watched films only to glean a few salient facts, and we never considered that films, as cultural artifacts, might be worthy of study in themselves. Films simply replaced textbooks as secondary source material...
That was about as definitive a statement as Washington would allow in a week of rumors. TIME correspondents nevertheless were able to reconstruct much of the final push toward peace and to glean the general outlines of the impending settlement. Despite the relative rush with which the pieces began falling together, a successful outcome had been seriously in doubt at many points along...