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You all kindly leave me alone. And as I pore over statistical physics on Saturday nights, I feel perfectly at ease, able to maintain at least the illusion that the rest of you are similarly employed.
Millie's comments are dry and pointed, destroying the illusion of equality in show business--an illusion which enables directors to stage performances that stereotype Black actors.
But it is the wide, umbrella-shape screen that provides the real breakthrough in Solido. When the brain combines the left- and right-eye images in a conventional 3-D movie, it creates by a process known as stereopsis an artificial three-dimensional space that seems to jut out from...
The problem is that they do lie. Bulimic and anorexic women grab hold of these myths because physical control is more readily attained than emotional control. Psychiatrists will tell you not to discuss food or appearance with these women, because doing so only encourages the illusion that appearances are all...
The talking-head format allows Roth to play to his strengths of critical intelligence and pitch-perfect ear. Few writers can touch him when it comes to the illusion of natural dialogue or the comic possibilities latent in high- mindedness. Deception is not a full orchestration of Roth's abilities...