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...look at the [World War I] poetry of Siegfried Sassoon or Wilfred Owen, one of the things they keep trying to bring out is that the language can't grasp the horror of what they've seen. You just fall back on cliché. [Sept. 11] was one of the moments that you realize how inadequate language...
...American playwright due to his ability to create a distinct language for his characters. Listen to the way the real estate salesmen talk about the “leads” in Glengarry Glenross or how Fox talks about setting up a meeting in Speed-the-Plow. The characters grasp at words as if they were life preservers, futilely attempting to keep their heads above water, eventually drowning in their desperation. To Mamet, the world is a cruel joke; some people are in on it and some aren’t, but they all try to believe they can pull...
...growing relationship between the two causes Styron to question her life choices, but also causes Murphy to escalate her exploitations. The characters serve the story nicely, but Murphy is too extreme; audience members might find themselves simply feeling sorry for Styron for being in Murphy’s grasp rather than appreciating the intricacies of the film...
Barring injury, captain Andrew Gellert will end the season as the Harvard men’s basketball team’s all-time leader in steals. Last night against Northeastern, he stole victory from the grasp of his own foul-line woes...
...Possibly. But it could just as easily suggest they're desperate that he may be slipping from their grasp. So it's too soon to make that claim. As Secretary Rumsfeld says, we'll know where he is when we've got him. And the U.S. has had sufficient capability in the area for some time that if the military knew where bin Laden was, they could get him in two hours. Having a Marine base near Kandahar shortens the timeline required to get hundreds of men to his location if it becomes known...