Word: paragraphed
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...Private Idaho is a different story. Or rather nonstory, in which a pair of homosexual hustlers (River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves) search inconclusively for the meaning of their lives. What plot it has is borrowed, improbably, from Henry IV, and whenever anyone manages to speak an entire paragraph, it is usually a Shakespearean paraphrase. But this is a desperate imposition on an essentially inert film. There's more drama, and comedy, in the reviews of critics who committed themselves to Van Sant's anti-Establishment genius after Cowboy and | are trying to justify their enthusiasm now. Talk about desperation...
Those with sharp memories will have noticed two errors in the preceding paragraph: Hill's voice may have sometimes wavered, but she never cried, and Thomas may have thundered with his voice but never with his fist. Even if memory fails to retain these details, how many Americans will accurately retain the essence of the events? Will our memories reflect the truth...
...pages long, but with a long paragraph on the grading policy...
...HEIGHT of the Vietnam War, Marius listened to Lyndon Johnson recite a paragraph of a Winston Churchill speech almost word-for-word. Marius's reaction: "I thought, 'That son-of-a-bitch! Not only is he a murderer, but he's a plagiarist...
...covert war is rife with betrayal, and ultimately no one is pure in Deighton's 17th spy novel. Intrigues misfire; disease kills more effectively than bullets; and corruption becomes the order of the day. Even so, the characters are shrewdly delineated, and the suspense continues until the final paragraph. Moral ambiguity used to be called Greeneland. Since Graham Greene's death, that territory is open for conquest. At least a part of it ought to be renamed Deightonsville...