Word: lacayo
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...sentimentalizes commercial sex, imagining a Western encounter with the Third World that will be calculating and unglamorous but, all in all, gentle. You might say "gently empty." The empty part is a good bet. Somebody remind the author that the gentleness is not to be counted on. --By Richard Lacayo...
...last Sunday, Glass pre-empts an unflattering film, Shattered Glass, slated for release in the fall. He still might have done better to produce a straightforward memoir. But you can see his problem. If he ever tries to publish nonfiction again, who's going to believe him? --By Richard Lacayo...
...resist the temptation merely to blow it all up while shaking a head at what fools these mortals be? Not Atwood. What's missing here is the emotional sinew of Cat's Eye, the complex mortifications of Alias Grace. In which case, pass the popcorn. --By Richard Lacayo...
...secured forever in 1956, when he died, like James Dean, in a car crash. But by that time the energies he had released were in motion everywhere. The painter Willem de Kooning said it best: "He broke the ice." True enough, but it broke him too. --By Richard Lacayo...
...Aryan superiority. Here's Tim Berners-Lee posting a message to colleagues about his idea to create the World Wide Web. We wanted to picture them as they went about their business, on a day when it just so happened that their business was making history. --By Richard Lacayo...