Word: hollowness
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...right. For all that Prince of the City pretends to unveil the world of the cop, each viewer can leave the film with his preconceptions about cops--whatever they are--entirely unaffected. In short, we don't know why Ciello does what he does, and that gap leaves Prince hollow at its core...
...bank-loan collector, liked working with children, played in a high school band and idolized Lennon. He left his job as a Honolulu security guard and flew to New York with money borrowed from his Japanese wife. After getting Lennon's autograph, he killed his hero with four hollow .38-cal. bullets. He was arrested moments later, carrying a copy of J.D. Salinger's The Catcher...
Unreal? Naturally. Bizarre? Of course. Irving takes considerable pleasure in bucking the normal expectations of an audience. The prevailing taste of most contemporary readers is for realism, especially when the technique applies to incredible romances and hollow documentary fiction. Garp proved that there was a large unfulfilled appetite for imaginative literature-for the athletically contorted novel that, nevertheless, rings emotionally and psychologically true...
...fired from every job his father got him until, at 21. he became a copy boy at the New York Daily News. He fell in love. "Silence. The sound of dust settling... I waited. It came-the dull tentative growl of presses. It was slow. It gathered confidence. The hollow sound, like a train approaching a tunnel, hit its stride, and the floor, the walls, the ceiling trembled as though in fear of the news they had spawned." He lasted a year...
...Brigham's in Harvard Square, describes the "zeroll" scooping technique (named for the anti-freeze-filled scoop that is used) that Brigham's requires its employees to learn. "The idea is to get maximum surface area but to keep the scoop sort of hollow," she explains. "You get a strip of ice cream that curls around on itself." Scoopers are trained to whip out precisely 4 oz. per small scoop, 5½ oz. for a medium scoop and 7 oz. for a large. But what ends up happening, she notes, is that customers who talk to the scoopers...