Word: poeticizing
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...actions, far from childish, allowed her to flourish in the Darwinistic struggle for status that begins in high school. And for anyone who has ever been prey in that struggle, for anyone who has ever been upstaged by a pretentious over-achiever, her dramatic fall was deliciously poetic. But as long as accomplishment substitutes for character, perfection for candor, elite Universities will continue to encourage Blair Hornstines and promote the Blair Hornstine in each student...
...novelists who get better book by book, from his early science-fiction noodlings to the hard-boiled, atmospheric Motherless Brooklyn. The Fortress of Solitude is a glorious, chaotic, raw novel, and God knows there are any number of ways to pick it apart. Lethem has adopted a furiously literary, poetic style that would look overwrought in the pages of an undergraduate literary magazine, and he gambles on a risky element of magical realism: the boys discover a magic ring that intermittently (it's capricious) gives them superpowers. But Lethem grabs and captures 1970s New York City, and he brings...
...Hubris meets poetic justice when Jessica's mark turns out to be a yakuza kingpin, and the arrivistes find that they?not the locals?are the na?fs. The story clips along as the kidnappers scramble to salvage their plan, but the breathless blow-by-blow narration leaves little room for the main characters to evolve beyond textbook-case stupid Americans. By the time the mobsters close in, we're rooting for a speedy end to the fiasco. In that, at least, the novel delivers...
...Brew (yanjing.com.cn) Foam Home Yanjing's official website opens with a techno-driven splash page, but the contents lose something in translation. Beer that's "clear and limpid with white fine foams" sounds more poetic in Mandarin. But there are introductions to several varieties of beer and a short history of the company...
...been planned long ago as an Iraq victory rally during which America would honor its British ally by awarding Prime Minister Tony Blair the congressional gold medal. But Thursday, despite Bush's ringing praise and Blair's passionate, poetic salute to America before a joint session of congress, neither sounded triumphalist. The medal ceremony was postponed to a later date, and Blair and Bush spent the afternoon firing back at Iraq war skeptics and vowing to press on until they prevail - and are vindicated. The Blair line that got most media attention in his own country was his rationalization...