Word: lensed
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Perlstein’s greatest strength is his ability to craft a good narrative—even if, at 516 pages, Before the Storm is a whopper. In the book’s opening chapters Perlstein nicely depicts the Arizona cowboy milieu from which Goldwater emerged, even as he reinforces...
There Emerson hits precisely upon an essential imbecility of our own time. Rabid partisanship, an overboil of conviction, damages sight, impairs understanding, and may even ruin the joy of life. You see the world with one eye, peering straight ahead through one stupid, dogmatic lens, and walk through the day...
Filming begins after sunset, and Timkul has already downed several cans of Heineken, insisting she was so nervous the night before she couldn't sleep. Chung has a few too. It's a miminal set: white walls, rotating ceiling fans, a plain dark wooden bed. Nonzee drapes a mosquito net...
The whole thing takes place in a dystopic, near-future urbania familiar to any fan of "Blade Runner" or "Dark Angel." People live in dilapidated hovels, but can also travel from New York to Paris in an hour, or surf a network of information with a special contact lens.
The control room was quiet except for the diving officer who called out depths as the sub ascended. "One-zero-zero feet...nine-five feet." "Push the wheel forward so the sub begins leveling out," he whispered to me. The planes now had to move in the opposite direction to...