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...very long after James Watson finished his Nobel Prize-winning work on the structure of DNA in 1953, he started firing off some eyebrow-raising comments about his fellow man: that fat people don't get hired because they lack ambition; how sunlight (and darker skin) is the source of the "Latin lover" libido; what he found distasteful in the appearance of his female research collaborator, Rosalind Franklin...
...only wonder about the motives behind releasing a record like this. Either the band is completely ignorant of their lack of any apparent skill, or they’re merely going through the motions to put the final nail in the coffin of their record contract. Either way, it’s irrelevant. From the sub-par album cover to childish song titles like “Dizzy” and “Firefight,” all the variables of a band on its last legs are in place. 2007 may be the year Jimmy Eat World?...
...writers who keep the genre “alive” but hardly “well.” Shepard joked that all humans are “essentially lazy” and would prefer not to work at reading. Russo echoed his sentiments and attributed the lack of interest for short fiction to the “perceived difficulty of the form.” According to King, the breadth of available mediums contributes to the disappearance of the original manner of storytelling. Rather than just reading, people have the option of watching television and movies...
...otherwise mundane things. In the final third of the book, Pinksy moves further into the abstract, addressing a myriad of ideas as unconnected as Inman Square and allusion. Dominated by simple sentences and minimal form, Pinsky’s poems are austere; their free verse structure mirrors that lack of order and refinement in the world to which Pinsky is reacting. His diction is carefully designed to extract maximum emotion with minimal effort, and allusions to current events permeate the pages. Most poems are composed of short stanzas that propel the poetry at a fast clip and reflect the spontaneous...
Redford also pointed to politicians’ lack of consideration for foreign customs and resort to brash decisions as contributing to the decline of America’s status in the world...