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...True crime - especially the kind in which nothing but honor is lost - in this instance proves to be much more entertaining, particularly in the way it resists neat structuring and more acutely reflects the general messiness and desperation of life, than fictional crime. Some innocent early reviewers have discerned "Hitchcockian overtones" in Fracture. That's a pretty wet idea. But the old master was awfully good at making us root for his miscreants almost against our wills and this is the good little trick The Hoax manages to impose...
...Richardson writes of “West from Appomattox,” because apparently the pro-Union states are now all Democratic and the current Republican states had either not yet reached statehood or were Confederate. The book’s argument is interesting, but ultimately a little too neat. If you’re looking for an understanding of contemporary political conflicts, Richardson can give it to you in just one word: Reconstruction. In the years following the Civil War, the Northern Republicans, which in new-millennium speak means Democrats, believed the best way to reforge the nation...
...video begins with the faraway shot of a man in a neat room with a mahogany desk. The camera lens zooms in to focus on the man as he begins to talk: about family, tradition, and community—about finding “your own greatness if it’s in you.”The video isn’t part of a self-help program, a political PR campaign, or even an army recruiting push. This comely and admirable man is the grand master of Masons in Massachusetts, and he wants (some of) you.Entitled...
...something be both true and unprovable? This idea, loosely known as "incompleteness," came as a logical bombshell to all right-thinking mathematical philosophers--you could compare it in its impact (a little glibly) to Heisenberg's famous uncertainty principle. It turns out that mathematics isn't a neat straight line; it's a loop, and a deeply strange one at that...
...often, we pigeonhole comic and kid-oriented works into neat and tidy categories, forcing them to conform to the comic book’s stereotypical nerdy, science-fiction minded readership. But when the artists and authors step outside the kiddy confines of the genre, the results can be inspiring...