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...identity for a corpse, a dead man who never actually existed, and pretend that he was in contact with the leader of Al-Qaeda, whom they hope to force out of hiding. However, most of the book languishes on the wholly uninteresting, poorly drawn relationship between the jaded protagonist, CIA operative Roger Ferris, and Alice Melville, a naïve charity worker who helps Palestinian refugees. What could be a thrilling story gets mired in the mundane details, particularly domestic spats between Roger and his wife Gretchen. While the tension begins to build at the end, the surprises that ensue...
...original production and in most subsequent interpretations, the protagonist of “The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol” is a dwarf. But at 5’10”, Carolyn W. Holding ’10, who plays Lucie in the upcoming Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) production, doesn’t quite fit that mold. “She’s very tall and very lovely and beautiful, which is not what Lucie in fact is,” says producer Mollie M. Kirk ’07. Specific physical descriptions were not a priority...
...Kafka. "Kafka tries to reach his moral goal by disorientating the reader," he says. "A short story in this style is like a slap in the face." If Kafka offers a slap, Keret's stories are more like a rifle-butt blow to the jaw. In one tale, the protagonist spots a woman walking down the street and sees, a second later, "the tip of a knife sticking out of the front of her neck...
...attractive blonde reporter who, when she is not gazing at a love interest, spends most of her time looking around in helpless horror. You can’t blame her for her reaction to the situation in Iraq, but her constant vulnerability does not help make her a compelling protagonist. Anna’s real role in the film is as a point in common among the different sides of the conflict. Her boyfriend Dan (Damian Lewis) is a liberal but desensitized American military intelligence officer based in Baghdad’s Green Zone who spouts bizarre nonsense about...
...would still opt for full-time employment if they could. Despite the damage it sustained during the lost decade of the 1990s, the ideal of the company as family among Japanese is still strong - leaving part-timers as veritable orphans. Even Haken - which appears subversive at first, with a protagonist who would rather have her freedom than a full-time job - will probably end up reconfirming old stereotypes. Miho Nakazono, a writer for the show, told a Japanese paper recently: "I feel the performance-based system is not suited for the Japanese. The important point is to coexist." Haruko stands...