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Munro also creates the illusion of leisure by playing tricks with time. She introduces stories at the point where other writers might finish them, then uses flashbacks to build up remarkable suspense about the disposition of foregone conclusions. Fits starts off matter-of-factly: "The two people who died were...
"What you will see is no illusion," Deputy District Attorney Lea Purwin D'Agostino told jurors in a packed Los Angeles courtroom. "These were not deaths in which someone can get up and wipe the bloody-looking catsup off their faces . . . They were very, very real deaths." Indeed, said D...
The title Demon Box refers to Physicist James Clerk Maxwell's colorful explanation of perpetual motion. In the book Maxwell's model is used by a California therapy guru, fictionalized as Dr. Klaus Woofner, to explain human behavior. Kesey the globe trotter and spiritual joker seems entranced. But Kesey the...
"Invulnerability is a dangerous illusion. SDI may accelerate the arms race," said Maj Britt Theorin, Swedish ambassador to the Disarmament Conference in Geneva. "Technological advantage in any weapons system can only be temporary and can never lead to permanent security," she said in a panel moderated by Radcliffe president Matina...
The unpopularity of modernist sculpture, as compared with painting, is a fact of life. Americans, especially, seem to prefer painting to sculpture because of its greater power of illusion and fantasy. (Sculpture is resistant stuff, hard to fantasize about. Renoir used to provoke erotic reveries; Maillol, never. You can imagine...