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Crucial help came from a former rival. Australian consultant Peter Phillips picked up "one by one" the five key organizers of the wildly successful Games in Sydney, which beat out Beijing by two votes back in 1993, and made them China's exclusive counselors. For more than two months last winter, Phillips and friends spent 16-hour days in Beijing helping craft key documents. When the International Olympic Committee sent an evaluation crew to grill the committee, Phillips and his team suggested answers the Chinese might have muffed, such as making them omit the usual "evil-cult" epithet from comments...
Such a narrow conception of fiction and its imaginative resources annoyed and exasperated Roth. He could have deflected these misreadings by following Portnoy's with a novel whose central character bore no surface resemblances to himself. With characteristic contrariness, Roth did the exact opposite. Peter Tarnapol, the narrator of My Life as a Man (1974), is, unlike Portnoy but like Roth, a writer and one who has enjoyed early acclaim, hailed as "'the golden boy of American literature' (New York Times Book Review, September, 1959)." Tarnapol's obsessive topic is his disastrous first marriage; that Roth had lived through such...
...also has an uncanny ability to create characters who, though they are seldom given specific histories, are at once menacing and often desperately sad. Peter Hall, who directed all but one of Pinter's new theater plays for 21 years, from 1962 until the two fell out over what Pinter felt were unfriendly observations about him in Hall's published diaries (they have since been reconciled), loves that unpredictability about his characters. "They are mysteries." says Hall, "selfish, outrageous, predatory, often likable - just like us. Their mystery is our mystery." Adds Duncan: "He's not in the business of giving...
...think you catch my drift, and I certainly hope that my fellow interns also understand my underlying message. Obviously, work in general can be a royal pain, and monotonous office work is even worse. That’s why we all feel the same sympathies for Peter in Office Space. We understand his work-related depression and cheer for him in his post-hypnotic awakening and liberation from the horrors of his boring job. But, like Peter, I hope that other interns who have been fortunate enough to come to D.C. and enjoy its sights and sensations will snap...
...confident if people can get past the pain of generic office work and appreciate their Washington internships on a different level, then they’ll perhaps relax and begin to enjoy what they do. More importantly, they’ll also know what Peter eventually discovers in the movie...