Word: leitmotifs
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What keeps the book from being no more than a series of alphabetically arranged humor columns is the leitmotif of becoming a man: Jacobs somehow turns the effort of reading 33,000 pages into the world's most passive Bildungsroman. The project, it seems, springs less from an urge to soak up information than from a desire to confront his Oedipus complex. His brilliant lawyer father, who is so competitive that he holds the record for most footnotes in a legal article, once attempted to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica but quit in the B's. But even more important...
...course, Vietnam is much in the U.S. headlines these days, although largely as the leitmotif of John Kerry's presidential campaign. But save for Kerry's promising that he'd give more support to the troops in Iraq and spinning a fantasy about more foreign troops arriving to help out - serious analysts would be hard-pressed to identify a single country whose decision over deployments in Iraq would change as a result of a Kerry victory - there's very little daylight between him and President Bush over what to do next in Iraq. Much as the candidates can disagree over...
...Cinque is dead. It's the leitmotif and only real truth in Helen Garner's true-crime account, Joe Cinque's Consolation (Picador; 328 pages). He was the good-natured son of Italian migrants who moved from Newcastle to Canberra to live with his sexy law- student girlfriend. She is Anu Singh, the indulged daughter of Sydney doctors whose eating disorders and Prozac popping saw her charge reduced to manslaughter, and who walked away with four years in jail and a masters' degree in criminology. A decade ago, in The First Stone, Garner lifted the lid off a famous sexual...
...Tuesday of the title, a reference to September 11, 2001, has become the leitmotif of the series. The first two issues, covered by TIME.comix, gave us Rehr's remarkable autobiographical account of the catastrophe as he experienced it from a few blocks away. Now, Rehr has followed that up with a fictional story, "Tribeca Sunset," which explores the relationship of four men in the aftermath of that red-letter day. Craig, Mac and Neil, three former New York art school chums, get together with Neil's brother Rob to attend Neil's gallery opening and meet his fianc?e...
...made a few bête noir student films with what he laughingly calls his leitmotif: "People getting killed because of messages they get in mass-produced food products...