Word: illusioners
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Bombast aside, however, O'Hara's decision to stop writing short stories for a while seems wise. The Horse Knows the Way (the title has overtones of weariness and self-mockery) is his fourth large collection of short stories in four years. O'Hara's imagination...
It is this sharing of the experience that unites the wild lovers of Bohemian sex or homo-sex--that lends the illusion of union with brother race as white hipster makes Negro chick. The sharing is built to its very foundation on the in versus the out; on the exclusion...
Conceal the Chorus. Behind these statistics, other patterns have taken shape. The illusion of neutrality, for instance, was only that, since nearly all of the fence-sitting papers have made plain which way they lean. And the unprecedented volume of Johnson endorsements could not conceal the fact that the chorus...
In one Andalusian town, a baker produces bread that is more like stone. But everybody eats it without complaint because the baker grandly signs his initials on each loaf. In Spain, illusions of grandeur are respected. "To us, illusion is a weakness to recognize and overcome," writes Honor Tracy. "To...
In these and several other scenes, Director Sidney Lumet rises vigorously to the dread occasion. Item: the large animated map, on which enormous aerial battles are imagined in diagram and followed as they flow, is a magnificent narrative conceit. But during the last half of the film the illusion of...