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...Which brings me to the real lesson here: as the Altima, the CTS and a panoply of new rolling stock at the Detroit show signal, car companies everywhere have suddenly awakened to the need to give us interesting cars again. We want cars born of passion, not focus groups, please. Every car company has just about the same technology and engineering capability, and it's all better than ever. Finally, after a decade of producing completely reliable - but truly boring - cars, there are some interesting ideas out there. The CTS just happens to be the first one that made...
Holden Caulfield is a moldy fig; the Lord of the Flies has been swatted. This year, the unquestioned literary god on college campuses is a three-foot-high creature with long curly hair on his feet, a passion for six vast meals a day, and the improbable name of Frodo Baggins. And would you believe that Frodo is a hobbit? Hairy feet and all, Frodo Baggins is the reluctant hero of this year's "In" book--a three-volume fantasy called The Lord of the Rings...The hobbit habit seems to be almost as catching as LSD. On many...
Shaw’s heroes are men of moral passion.” (English...
Cooper later compares Wurtzel to La Traviata or a martyred saint: a figure we love to watch suffer. “Ordinary suffering tends to be kind of dull, whereas the Passion of Liz is pathos raised to the pitch of art porn,” he writes in an e-mail. “Agony on ecstasy. If drag queens are not dressing as Elizabeth Wurtzel 30 years down the road, I’ll be deeply surprised...
...Basically, I grabbed them right after the match against Oklahoma and told them that if they looked at what Oklahoma did to us, we’re on the same level,” Weiss said. “It’s a matter of how much passion you wrestle with. It seemed like we were reacting to everything they did to us instead of going after them...