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Johnson said he was not surprised that PBH had once again become the object of reformers' zeal...
That's Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America, A Memoir in a nutshell--a better place for it, in fact, than in the bookstores or on your shelf. Marketed as an object lesson in depression among the young, privileged, and talented, this book by '89 grad Elizabeth Wurtzel is more useful as an object lesson in how much the New York publishing industry sucks. How did this chick get a book contract in the first place? Why was she allowed to write such crap? (For example: "When I was with Abel, I felt like ice cream in a bowl...
Alexander seemed to be providing an object lesson in trying to strike just the right note. "The concerns expressed by the Christian Coalition are no different from those I've heard from other Americans," he told TIME. "The question for us as Republicans is how we can give voice to those concerns without coming across as intolerant or angry or threatening." Indeed, the trick to winning the G.O.P. nomination is to get at least the grudging approval of conservative Christians while drawing support from the party's other two important bases, neither of which cares much about the main religious...
...specific works covered, she says, are not as important as what they illustrate man and nature in art, art in its cultural context, and the work of art as a physical object...
...order for a satire to succeed, it must blur the line between exaggeration and reality. The reader, or in the case of a movie the viewer, must believe what he or she is seeing. Only after a few moments of reflection will the true meaning sink in, the object of derision be spotted and the author's point be made. In Oliver Stone's new release, "Natural Born Killers," none of the qualifications for satire are met. Instead, Stone pummels the viewer with a series of images, linking the plot together as if he, not just the two main characters...