Word: objections
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...audience was used to watching. After all, videos of this length are not entirely foreign; most YouTube clips are little more than one minute in length, and many movie previews endeavor to capture the entire sense of a film in less than a minute. Most films centered on an object or a short series of images. People, when featured, were usually treated as additional objects. Very few of the films featured dialogue, although those that did were memorable. One example popular with the audience was Matthew Thompson’s “Jell-O,” in which...
...knew I just had to put them in my book. And they became so important that the title of my second novel actually became “The Celestial Globe.” I tend to be magpie-ish. I see something pretty, and whether it be [an object] or an idea, I think, “I want to keep it! How can I put that in [my novel]?” THC: Any advice for aspiring writers?MR: If the right story doesn’t come to you now, it’s okay. You have many...
...whom) the novel will end, there is still a certain amount of pleasure in seeing Pat discover this for himself. Nevertheless, Pat’s clumsy language, simplistic concept of the world, and frequent inability to understand others make him an odd—and ultimately unsatisfying—object for the reader’s sympathy. —Staff writer Rachel A. Burns can be reached at rburns@fas.harvard.edu...
...Euros, the NBA will lose the foundation of its business: talented players. While this movement has not taken off yet, it makes sense that if one league loses its best talent, the level of play will decrease. Tom Brady, star quarterback of the Patriots football team, offers an object lesson for these issues. Brady completely changed the scope of the 2008 NFL season when he tore a muscle in his left knee during the first game of the year against the Kansas City Chiefs. While many Patriots fans are still faithfully following the team, it seems that far fewer...
...latest polemic. Unlike the grounded, tangible arguments of 2006's excellent American Vertigo--in which he roamed the U.S. la Tocqueville and painted a portrait of a nation both majestic and mad--there's an intellectual ranginess to Dark Times that makes it difficult to pin down. The object of Levy's ire is the left, or rather, "the monsters that the new laboratories of what we in Europe call Leftism and what Americans call liberalism are giving birth to." In its better days, says Levy, the left stood against evil and injustice and all the worst aspects...