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...current topic is certainly lurid, if you would believe the seventy-three-year-old authorial voice masquerading as wide-eyed Charlotte. The use of free-indirect-discourse throughout the novel often betrays Wolfe as the man behind the curtain, as when Charlotte critiques the pastiche of hotel lobbies “these days,” making her sound as if she has done and seen just about everything in this great land, until we are reminded that she doesn’t know the most basic juvenile slang...
Thankfully, there are other ways of reconstructing the facts on the ground in Iraq. According to a study by a team of researchers from Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health, more than 100,000 Iraqi civilians have died as a direct or indirect result of the war since its start last year, half of whom are innocent women and children. Meanwhile, the attacks in Fallujah alone created over 240,000 refugees. And while President Bush and his apologists often use the “Iraq is better off with Saddam in prison” canard...
...college students wore Mission of Burma t-shirts and sweaters screened with the cover to OK Computer, in some sort of indirect homage to Wilson. Not to be outdone, the baby boomers sported shirts with the original album cover to Smile—the covers that were printed by the thousands in 1967, but never packaged with a Smile LP and never sold...
...Childhood reading stays with you in a way no other reading does,” Tatar says. In some indirect way, the Grimms led her to the study of German...
...countered with its own case, accusing Boeing of benefiting from "massive" indirect subsidies: Department of Defense and NASA contracts. A U.S. trade official insisted last week that the Bush Administration is willing to overlook the more than $3 billion in loans European governments have given Airbus in order to get the superjumbo A380, which can carry 550 passengers, off the ground by 2006. But the official wants a commitment from the E.U. to "turn off the tap," adding that Airbus "should be able to compete on its own." Washington wants to head off any Airbus subsidy-supported plan to rival...