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...more question: Why must our stars fall so spectacularly and fail us so egregiously? The suspicion here is, Because we want them to. Indeed, it may be the prime instructive function of celebrities to show us, in their early radiance, what we could dream of being--and in the murk of their decline, what we fear, or know, we could become. --With reporting by Desa Philadelphia and Jeanne McDowell/Los Angeles and Jill Underwood/San Diego
Still, Dartboard knows that his dream is not to be: when they turn their backs on the dimensions of physical reality, Harvard’s thinkers prefer the rarefied murk of theories upon theories to the comforting tones and loony hijinks of cartoons. Meep, meep...
...philosophy on the memoir, its definition and value. “Modern memoir posits that the shaped presentation of one’s own life is of value to the disinterested reader only if it dramatizes and reflects sufficiently on the experience of…movement away from the murk of being told who you are…toward the clarity of that identifies accurately the impulses of the self.” What follows this definition is some of the finest criticism in the book, in large part because she remains true to the goal of identifying that movement...
Arab Strap's sound is a mix of programming and instrumentation, and the result has often been spare beats and a repeated chord that crescendos in silence, or sudden musical murk. This format is not at all abandoned on The Red Thread, but it is supplemented with strings and piano. In "Haunt Me," Arab Strap has perhaps their most crowd-pleasing song to date, a melodic work built around a few spare lyrics: "So haunt me / Cause I know / You'll keep me / In to," a double rhyme with gory details...
...since opening in Toronto in 1996, is its uninspired score, with music and lyrics (beware of newcomers who do both) by Paul Gordon. Lacking either the melodic sweep of Andrew Lloyd Webber or the anthemic vitality of the Les Miz team, the music blends together into one pseudo-operatic murk. The lyrics, full of talk about spring mornings and secret souls, are no better, flattening Jane's spirit as firmly as any of her Victorian taskmasters. In the novel, for example, Jane makes a momentous decision, at age 18, to leave her stultifying school and strike...