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...review list of allusions and terms turns into a weird poem on current events: “A dramatic monologue: a soliloquy. Subjectivity, objectivity, and euphemism. Conceit: hyperbole. Inversion and irony… the tragic flaw. Protagonist or antihero? Point of view! Epic elements, oxymoronic furies, paradoxical fates. Icarus and Daedalus, or Tantalus and Sisyphus? Or Pandora...
...real question is never “Where are you flying?” but “Which places are you avoiding by flying?” The real appeal of flight—apart from humanity’s mythical obsession with flying fantasies (remember Daedalus and Icarus?)—is not just efficiency. It’s the fact that airplanes allow us to jump over undesirable places. Coast to coast flight is implicitly about the Middleland, which we may get to know through the comforting familiarity of islands like Cincinnati or Atlanta. The Middleland...
...Certainly Case and his company made the perfect Icarus. One of the Internet's great touts as head of AOL, he became one of its great arbitrageurs too when he engineered the merger with Time Warner just before the bubble popped. AOL shareholders who got out made out, but three years later the combined company's stock is down to $15 from $72 and the AOL unit is still looking for a model that can come close to the dizzying growth rates of the past. Throw in several ongoing investigations into accounting at the pre-merger AOL and the suspicion...
...fall of empires, they filled the news hole, they fed the many-headed media beast. Once the Soviet Union and the Cold War were gone, we have had Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill, the O.J. Simpson case, Waco, Oklahoma City, the death of Princess Diana, Colombine, the Icarus descent of John Kennedy Jr, Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, Elian Gonzalez, and much, much more...
...Greek mythological tale of Daedalus and his son Icarus appealed to Hopkins because it lends itself to a creative, winged restaurant logo...