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...admits as much, saying, "I had never really thought of writing one before I began this book"), and his inexperience shows. While the book is impressively researched and lavishly documented (Daniels has tracked down many previously untapped sources among Young's relatives and fellow musicians), it feels curiously inert, without any of the narrative drive you would expect in a biography of as vivid a figure as Lester Young. And while the author shows great enthusiasm for highlighting the context of Young's life (with interpolated essays on everything from the African American oral tradition to the history of marijuana...
...thoughtful presence in Wonder Boys and The Cider House Rules, can seem like an alien sent to observe earthlings. Here he's highly muscled but still sensitive; he certainly cries way more than your standard superhero. Raimi directs the film at Maguire's pensive pace. Some scenes are just inert. Whole swatches of Spider-Man play like a $139 million indie film...
However, these attempts appear somewhat inert and infrequent when viewed within a larger context. Harvard’s investment in public art is insufficient compared to the nearby Massachusetts Institute of Technology. MIT has a full-time public art curator, who has administered the Percent-for-Art Policy since 1968. The program, modeled on federal policy adopted during the Kennedy administration, allocates one percent of the cost of each new building to the provision of public art. The program has resulted in a rich and diverse group of works and has noticeably infused the MIT landscape with...
...largely middle-aged, touristy crowd seems immune to the gospel power of their three songs. They sit inert, chewing gum and wiping away the spittle that forms at the corner of their mouths. Those who lose interest in the show can ponder the age-old question: Is the quality of a restaurant’s food inversely proportional to the number of scrunchies sported by its clientele...
...which everyone is flying off in a different direction. Yet what this also means is that when the government in Japan is paralyzed, the people tethered to it are equally oppressed; whereas India might be the story of individual energies working around and despite institutions that are sclerotic and inert. Japan, for all its constant movement, seems to be going nowhere; India, for all its changelessness, seems to be on the move...