Word: presented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is no doubt that a passion for storytelling is present in A walk on the Moon. Passion is one thing that he has plenty of, and we can count on the fact that Tony Goldwyn, the nice guy who offered us cookies and coffee on a wintry afternoon, will continue to make the films that move him and move us in turn...
While the focus of Lost on Earth is on refugees and human migration, the book uses this angle to discuss broader issues in America's post Cold War foreign policy, paint a vivid picture of the horrors and atrocities still present in our supposedly "modern warfare" and convey the hopelessness and frustration of entire societies through the lives of individuals. Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent Mark Fritz succeeds in writing a thoughtful book that should shock the average, complacent American into realizing that a world of incredible human tragedies surround an insulated, peaceful American society...
...succeeded in revealing a vibrant collection of lives. Ending the book with "In This Way We Are Wise," a story treating a different subject matter and using a different style from that employed in the rest of the collection, Englander brings his readers into the violence of the present moment. While most of the stories contain middle-aged characters dealing with mid-life types of problems, this story follows Natan/Nathan, a young American living in Jerusalem who Narrowly avoids a nearby suicide bombing. The story, divided into numerous short segments, is told in choppy, metaphorical phrases: "Like wild birds frightened...
...that seems to mask some deep sadness, springs fully formed from the pages of his fiction. Does it shock any reader of those tragic and romantic books, stately and muscular, that Hemingway's fingers are thick and his glasses a severe but stylish stainless steel? A man already visibly present in his works became nearly inescapable at the centennial, in the actual shadow of his huge iconic face, and the myths that surrounded his life seemed perhaps to be a fitting commentary to his literary legacy. Perhaps they began to seem as if they are one and the same...
This letter is addressed to Jane--Jane the person, Jane the magazine, Jane the enigmatic figure who has lurked, inconspicuous but ever-present, throughout most of my sentient life. I just bought the one-year-anniversary issue of your new magazine, and my first question is: What happened? Either the irony of the publication is just too subtle for even the most subtle of readers, or someone with big hair and bigger scissors has snipped out your judgment and put it in the crisper of an industrial fridge. This magazine is a slap in the face of everything you used...