Word: protagonists
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...white picket fence. It is not until one actually purchases and reads the book (or, in case, the dust jacket) that one realizes that “The Double Bind” is actually the story of the “savage attack” of the female protagonist while riding that very bicycle. Oh, that silly publishing house! THE MEASURE OF A MAN: A SPIRITUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Sidney Poitier Mr. Sidney Poitier’s hands are clasped together in a contemplative pose; the image is taken in a solemn black and white. His eyes point towards you, though...
...that class imparted something more lasting than cartographical knowledge: a passionate hatred for the insipid, as embodied in the literature of Albom.For those fortunate enough to be unacquainted with his work, Albom has found a niche writing inspirational books that invariably involve a soul-searching protagonist grappling with death, either his own or someone else’s. Mix one part terminal illness with one part self-realization and you end up with three books on the New York Times Best Seller List.You know your friend who always has the sappy, poorly-worded quotes for her away messages? She?...
...hero was another strong man with a secret identity: in this case, Denny Colt, a detective who was believed killed and resurrected himself as the do-gooder Spirit. With Superman and Batman and their caped cronies running altruistically amok through urban mean streets, Eisner was encouraged to make his protagonist a bit more like them; only reluctantly did he slap a mask on the Spirit to establish his kinship to the superheroes. New York (Metropolis, Gotham) was here called Central City, though later the Spirit traveled abroad. Sometimes he nearly disappeared from his own strip, making only a perfunctory appearance...
...innocence but from noncommittal hipness. James Woods, the movies' definitive Sidney Sleaze, plays a renegade war correspondent, a self-proclaimed weasel with an itchy social conscience. In El Salvador (and, climactically, back in the States), he learns firsthand of atrocity and duplicity in the name of law. Because the protagonist is knowing instead of naive, Salvador never slips into the haranguing righteousness of Platoon. If Salvador nonetheless seems a smaller film, this is because it is content to catalog the sins of power; they do not accumulate dramatically until the final twisting crisis. But it is a fine study...
...mission.The galleries are floored with large, polished concrete slabs, the grid mirrored by the skylit paneled ceiling. During a tour of the galleries, one of the architects—Elizabeth Diller—said that she was trying to deal with “the architect as protagonist versus serving as background. We’ve tried to make the architecture a partner to the art.” The architecture isn’t meant to be ignored, and while it certainly complements some of the larger, more powerful pieces, it tends to overwhelm the more delicate works...