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...There's a world of difference between me and Sterling," she said. "I'm hyper, outgoing, social, and he tends to be more serious, hardworking, and introverted...
...small, hyper girls and their harried guardian share a mid-cabin seat. Immediately behind them sits a well-dressed 20-something delicately consuming a pastry. The girls chant "We're going to New Jersey, we're going to New Jersey." Their words fall slightly out-of-sync. They turn and begin jumping on their seats. They point at pastry and scream "New Jersey! New Jersey!" The woman eating it concentrates hard on finishing. As we turn the corner onto Mt. Auburn Street, one of the girls gets distracted by the Lowell House bell tower. "Who do they keep there...
...Mara is compulsive, jealous, hyper-analytical and destructive. She "walks as if the floor is thin ice. She checks beneath the cushion of a chair before sitting; she counts the knives in the silverware drawer." Through Mara, Budnitz explicates mental illness and the rationality of murder. This is too ambitious for her plot and narrative, especially given Mara's stream-of-consciousness rants. Had the rest of the novel not been so richly descriptive, this technique might have been effective. Instead, each thought staggers, laden with a false sense of importance and significance...
...presence" that is less a part of the plot and more a part of the music. They are a lot like the flygirls who appeared on the now-defunct TV variety show "In Living Color," kicking dance-ass and taking names while punctuating the story line with risque, hyper-energetic, musical exclamation points. To put it simply, they put the rock in rock opera...
...easy. In that show, he could impress the viewer with bombshells (real ones); in Millennium (CNN, Sundays through Dec. 12, 10 p.m. E.T.), he has to astonish us with what we already know. This 10-hour, chronological series doesn't always succeed, but at its best, its hyper welter of history renders the familiar surprising...