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...game show as a way of avoiding either a conversation that's sure to turn prickly or a long night of sullen introspection. They offer old doggerel - like Eleanor Roosevelt's "Yesterday is history, tomorrow's a mystery, today's a gift. That's why they call it the present" - as eternal wisdom. The men in Snow Angels have the appetites of the philanderers they see in movies but not the suave patter; a cheating husband in this town is unprepared for the inevitable lies or evasions he'll need when his wife finds out. When confronted with his indiscretions...
...also examines how the viewer is affected by film: Newell’s parents can endlessly watch footage of him at a pizza party, but the repeat viewing is merely a realization of their own powerlessness. They are unable to effect Newell’s life in the unrecordable present. The entire book is caught up in this cinematic feel and unsuccessfully tries to merge this paralyzing force with a punchy, incisive style.The prose alternates colloquial language with glamorized descriptions of the urban, partially adopting the interior monologue of each character. This strange fluctuation between the omniscient, descriptive voice...
...Mellor also writes of the importance of money and social status for entrance into both sites and of the rituals that surround them, claiming that final clubs have a negative effect on campus life. “Final clubs do have an impact on the way we present ourselves to be acceptable sexually,” she says. “I wanted to link power hierarchy, structural inequality and show how they manifest themselves on the bodies of real women.” However, Mellor’s piece does more than just express her personal opinion. It also...
...real! She really shuffles. So, they are still together. Grateful and reconciled, he falls back into his fragile sleep.” Juxtaposing the tenderness of love and the fear of its possible loss, Hartwig grasps the most familiar parts of ordinary life and presents them in an estranged fashion, reintroducing us to its intricacies as if we were once again seeing them for the first time.Her overarcing statements read as if they weren’t meant for an audience, but rather as proverbial, unconditional truths of life that ultimately transcend the subject matter of any piece...
While H Bomb received praise—Julia T. Havard ’11 said that it was “artistic expression” with “a message behind it”—some of those present feared that Diamond would be less like H Bomb and more like mainstream pornography...