Word: lende
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While we're at it, we might as well make our well-paid servants lend a hand to anyone willing to shell out the big dough. Force Marty Feldstein to help millionaires with their taxes. Force Seamus Heaney to edit pulp best-sellers. Force Jeff "I'm too busy saving the world to talk to undergraduates" Sachs to clean up a country that has some money, dammit. Force Med School profs to perform celebrity plastic surgery...
There remains, however, the question of why I wrote for this particular issue and why, if I sometimes disagree with the publication, I continue to lend my name...
Granted, the issues in Fool for Love do not lend themselves to easy dramatization. But Cabranes-Grant has failed to present the sort of realistic atmosphere that Shepard's script demands. Bial, on the other hand, buoyed by impressive acting, invigorates Horovitz's imperfect script...
While software is available for students whose courses specifically "require" it, there is nothing provided for those who simply wish to type a paper. Signs in gigantic bold face lettering admonish students who would have the audacity to ask about borrowing a program: "We do not have software to lend you!", "The software library is not a lending library!" and "There is nothing there for you!" These scare tactics are enough to frighten off the most enthusiastic would-be user...
...basic problem with the resulting book is that, for all the drama in its central character's situation, there is not much in the woman herself. She comes across as drab, passive and emotionally blocked. Her best quality, stubborn persistence, does not lend itself to glamour or theatrics. Besides, she was not present -- victims rarely are -- for the key moments in solving the case and preparing for trial. Thus, in bringing the story back to her, McGinniss keeps having to disrupt its momentum...