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...Wray doesn’t have to do the difficult and virtuosic work of setting up a fictional environment in which Will’s violence is forgivable. It’s the schizophrenia defense. Will’s twisted logic unspools over time, but never is there an instant??s doubt that the incident isn’t fully justified by the illness...
...multiple handguns. Similarly difficult to comprehend is the need for personal ownership of assault weapons; renewing the federal ban on such weapons should be a Congressional priority. Background checks must be thorough and make use of all available resources—they should not be “instant?? enough to be completed in 15 minutes. Finally, the federal government must end the indefensible exceptions that surround gun shows, where in many states there is no waiting period. At this critical juncture, it is essential that Democrats in the House and the Senate not back down from pursuing...
...unreasonable purchases on my father’s AmEx, he can also make me ponder the tenuousness of life or convince me that I can indeed fly. R. Kelly’s silky-smooth voice and innate thuggishness allows him to switch modes from preacher to player in an instant??his music has more emotional range than Shakespeare’s First Folio. At one moment, he is a dirty-talking player: for example, “Girl, you look just like my cars, I wanna wax it. / And something like my bank account, I wanna spend...
...We’ve got spirit—how ’bout you?” they shout in chorus, pointing at a neighboring table on the snap of the last syllable. The commotion has turned nearly every head in the room, and now without an instant??s hesitation the neighboring students repeat the chant, their fingers pointing in a new direction...
...sinister appearance tonight—and it would be sinister, since the realm of faerie is by all accounts dark and perilous—I would be far better equipped to deal with it than the average materialist, whose entire edifice of belief would be dynamited in an instant??and by a single leprechaun, no less...