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Girl in Landscape thus revisits the Western film genre, offers a noteworthy character development and provides a profound, albeit tacit, discussion of language and meaning--all compensating for an overly transparent style. Maybe Lethem's next works will stray, stylistically, from the clarity that one of his epigraphs calls for, quoting none other than John Wayne: "I don't trust ambiguity." Ambiguity plagues words for Pella; perhaps it should begin to spill into Lethem's prose as well...
...showcase of fisticuffs and nudity does not exactly stand out in the wasteland of our popular culture. And as for the kids, they'll probably learn more from Jerry's "final thought" than from their Sunday school teacher. (For the uninitiated, Jerry's "final thought" is a surprisingly profound social commentary that concludes every broadcast...
...Biotech research] involves medical knowledgebut no profound knowledge of how the world works,"he adds...
...anti-affirmative action hailstorm will continue to roll on, downing more and more centers of higher learning with them. "I sort of feel the nation is asleep [on this issue], and the consequences will be deep, profound, terrible and long-lasting," Rudenstine said. We must all wake up, or we will return in 2023 to find Harvard a very barren place. Though Harvard's diversity system is not the same as the affirmative action system of the University of California, it can still be affected by a national change in policies...
...like the discoveries that paved the way for the first wave of biotechnology entrepreneurs, today's new techniques of drug discovery represent a profound--and unavoidable--shift in the growth of the global pharmaceuticals industry...