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This is the plot of Pierre Carlet de Chamberlain de Marivaux’s eighteenth century comedy, La Dispute, translated by Resident Dramaturg Gideon Lester and directed by Anne Bogart at the American Repertory Theatre...
...that restore realism to the most unrealistic scenarios. This not to imply that action is given short shrift, for the fighting is frequent and furious. Nor does the action serve some obligatory masturbatory fix; he cleverly avoids the tedium that accompanies extended battle scenes by subordinating them to the plot. The novel maintains a fantastic tension throughout, with just the right number of pauses to let the reader catch his breath. The tone is spot-on; the ever-present sense of doom hovers cloudlike throughout, as befits a novel of war. Roberts manages to depict the war realistically and beautifully...
...Dinobots, the Constructicons, and Starscream. Standing in for these A-list robots are the supernumeraries of the Transformer world, unknowns and footnotes whose inclusion does nothing for the story. Those recognizable faces that are used are often mischaracterized, overwhelmingly underdeveloped, or reduced to ciphers in service of the plot. The appeal of fanfiction often lies in the fleshing out of characters previously delineated in official lore in the most superficial ways. Roberts takes a step back, his excellent portrayal of the war coming at the cost of character development...
Nevertheless, Turow says he knows his work unavoidably carries a message. The final version of the novel is the result of at least one major choice about presentation and plot line which he says could have changed the tone of the book entirely and sent the wrong message—more detail might ruin the story. But Turow, in contrast to many others in his genre, does treat his writing as art, taking time in the mornings to write before practicing law in the afternoons at the Chicago branch of the international firm Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal...
...hard Justin Timberlake fans should abandon any plot to finagle their way onto the set of Total Request Live. Last month, on my way up to MTV studios on the 23rd floor of the Viacom building in Times Square, I had my ID checked four separate times. I can’t blame them—my MTV screen test was at 1:30 p.m., the precise time when hoards of screaming teenagers crowd the street below the studios, offering anything and everything to snag a seat on Carson Daly’s countdown show...