Word: lifeness
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...there's an irony to the success of Twilight, it's this: life as the idol at the white-hot center of the hottest entertainment franchise in the world isn't that much different from being a vampire. Pattinson has become the immortal object of global fandom's hopeless yearnings. What began deep in Meyer's unconscious mind has become Pattinson and Stewart's reality. They're living the dream...
...dreamlike. McGoohan's Six knew that he was a captive; he knew where he came from, and he and the Villagers remembered details of the outside world. Caviezel's Six simply materializes. His past comes to him, and us, in a series of disorienting flashbacks (or are they?) of life in Manhattan that act as a parallel plot. He faintly recognizes people he meets from elsewhere, but they don't recall it; they don't know what New York is or recognize names like Darwin and Plato. The official belief is that there is no outside world: "There is only...
...more than 50% bigger, the car is twice as powerful (and there's often more than one), the TV is flat and gets 900 channels, and we expect the grocery store to have strawberries year-round and about 50 flavors of mustard. Small wonder we started charging our life-insurance premiums on our credit cards; we only expected to pay when we died...
After the firm imploded, friends of Fuld's worried not only about the spread of the financial disaster worldwide but also about his safety, as enraged employees, who had invested their life savings in now worthless company stock, cleared out. Though Wall Street, with government intervention, survived, Gasparino has plenty of finger-pointing to offer. He argues, for instance, that the SEC should be disbanded because of "the false sense of security it provides." Then again, after reading this book, you're not likely to be that susceptible anymore...
...standard advice for young writers has always been "Write what you know." Raymond Carver did exactly that. It so happens that for most of his life, what Carver knew best was hardship, both physical and psychological. In his short stories--tight-lipped parables of abjection that became hugely influential in the 1980s--life is a kind of nonstop distress sale. The apartments are shabby; the rent is unpaid; the living room furniture has been carried outside and strewn across the lawn. The people seem dislocated too, even when they're stuck in one place, licking their wounds and drinking hard...