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...their best, Finder's books are pure wish fulfillment. Like a romance novel promising true love, Killer Instinct moves you deliciously close to the corner office. That's a locale that has allure for Finder. "From time to time, I'll interview a CEO or a CFO or someone at the top of an organization, and I'll think, You know something? I could do this," he says. And why not? He's already written the script...
...lately done in the action genre look clumsy, dull and stale. It is a short, nonstop stuntfest that, by going back to basics and placing them on the screen with simple, breathless stylishness, turns what is essentially a lowlife movie form into something one is not embarrassed to call "pure" cinema--all energy, movement and high kinetic...
...mutual hermitting. ("Let's get lost," Frank Loesser wrote and Mary Martin sang, "lost in each other's arms.") It's true that songs of emotional defiance had been a sub-genre of blues. In folk music, John Jacob Niles, the Kentucky balladeer with the dramatic delivery and the pure falsetto, had written "Go Away from My Window," covered by Harry Belafonte and Joan Baez - and adapted by Dylan...
...unique concept in Ultimate Frisbee by which the players themselves are responsible for enforcing the rules of the game. There are no referees. According to the UPA web site, “in Ultimate, the honor system works.” “It is still pure, still about the competition and about having fun,” John says. McDonough says this element contributes to a more positive game atmosphere.“It’s a nice change from the culture of sports where soccer moms are yelling at kids when they are five years...
Interestingly, Gray chooses to enclose this achievement of realism within a frame narrative that is pure fantasy. The story of Lanark, a young amnesiac who inhabits a strange, dystopian world, neatly bookends Thaw’s. The two narratives never directly intersect: to Lanark, Thaw is only a character in a story told to him in a hospital (admittedly, a story that takes up two hundred pages...