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...pettiness that can explain why, in a world where Christians are routinely tortured, murdered, or forcibly converted for possession of the Bible, that the Koran is banned and proscribed. While it is not overly surprising that a movie based on a book—a “graphic novel?? to be precise—that damned Thatcherism as racist, authoritarian, and even fascist, is often juvenile, my disappointment stems form the fact that the movie could have been great. The parts of the movie that dealt with the stifling woodenness of totalitarian vocabulary, the weariness bred...
This is the question Jay McInerney addresses in his novel, “The Good Life.” The answer he seeks—the novel??s perplexing moral core—lies at the end of an exploration of individual human responses to the tragedy that shattered thousands of lives and transformed a nation...
...activity there would occur on a very “human scale.” The scientist walked residents through the basics of nanotechnology research, pulling empty beakers and petri dishes out of a gray toolbox to illustrate his presentation. The center will study the “novel?? physical and chemical properties that emerge from particles in their smallest forms. Two members of the Cambridge Fire Department reassured residents that the University was following proper safety procedures and that the City was equipped to deal with whatever incidents might arise. “We have the resources...
Alongside the “Masterpiece Theater” meets “Airplane” period slapstick of the novel??s scenes, the drama behind-the-scenes is too tonally different. Coogan has to choose between his girlfriend-with-child named Jenny (the heavenly Kelly Macdonald of “Trainspotting”) and the hip young production assistant Jennie (played by Naomie Harris, the “28 Days Later” heroine...
...knowledge of details about the lurid legal arena. Connelly thanks several defense attorneys in his acknowledgements, and he writes that he observed proceedings in a courtroom—it shows. Haller glibly throws around jargon and tactics familiar to “defense pros,” and the novel??s exposition is a fascinating glimpse into the life of a skilled defense lawyer...