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...block. Setting down his egg-and-cheese bagel, Goldstein explains that his prose felt “stilted and too removed.” He finally found his voice after writing the early scene when Koh—described as “a sturdy Asian man?? with an overflowing briefcase—first bursts into classroom and the narrative. “That was the first scene that I said ‘I got it,’” Goldstein says. “‘I know how I want to write...
...Wednesday night was a triumph for the maid of honor and the best man??I’ll let you decide who was who—when everyone came to see the bride and groom...
...Pen’s “wisdom.” No one has contributed more to the spread of racism in France than Jean-Marie Le Pen during his long political career. To describe Le Pen as a “tactless and sometimes foolish old man?? would strike the majority of French citizens—of all possible heritages, backgrounds, faiths, and political tendencies—as, at the very least, a very bad joke...
...topics dressed in humorous garb defined much of Lamb’s work. Gardner points to the 1978 animated short “Why Me?” as a prime example of Lamb’s talent. “Why Me?” begins with a man??s seemingly typical visit to the doctor’s office that is quickly transformed when the man is told that he has only five minutes to live. The film, which still caused Hallowell to laugh when discussing it, focuses on the man??s many reactions...
...describes the biography more accurately. Damrosch’s method is to lay out, to demonstrate. The authorial voice vanishes in the elegant telling of his tale. Do not search these pages for a final judgment of Rousseau. There is none.But there is a very descriptive account of the man??s life. Rousseau was born in 1712 when Geneva—now Switzerland’s second-largest city—was still a stand-alone republic. After an eventful but unpromising early life, he gravitated toward the Parisian philosophe culture and wrote a string of highly celebrated...