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Franzen has very little quarrel with Oprah. His real problem, and one that he lays out with care all through the book, is with a world in which the interior life becomes ever more threadbare as the means to sustain it--especially the essential consolations of serious reading--wither away. In tones that are sober but never lugubrious, Franzen weighs the pressures upon the self in a culture that manages the neat trick of discouraging real solitude and genuine community, substituting for both the paradox of media-overloaded isolation. "The first lesson reading teaches," he writes...
...Saddam's anti-American diatribes, much less the looming threat of a major war with the United States, an American in Baghdad is welcomed with a remarkable degree of friendliness. Many Iraqis seem to feel that the confrontation is not about them, but about their leaders. Any Iraqi quarrel with America, they are quick to add, is with the U.S. government and not the American people...
...Better--but it's hard to argue with his point. The question with Die Another Day is not whether it will be a hit but how big? Predict Bond's demise at your own risk. How many of his critics has he outlived already? In Dr. No, the fisherman Quarrel warns, "It don't do for a man to tempt Providence too often." Always a gambler, 007 seems to have taken those words as a dare. And 40 years later, it's safe to say we have a response: It don't do for a man to bet against Bond...
Therein lies Russia’s—and France and China’s—fundamental quarrel with American strategy. Whereas Bush is preoccupied with removing a vile dictatorship before it acquires nuclear capability, they are more concerned with removing the U.N. sanctions. Over the past 12 years, energy executives from the three countries have negotiated provisional agreements with Hussein to begin major oil development projects on the day that sanctions are finally revoked...
...took words and phrases and sliced them eight different ways." Richard Pryor, he says, was perhaps the greatest artist of all stand-ups; his stories had beautiful and elaborate structures. Seeing both Carlin and Pryor onscreen, though, you feel the anger simmering beneath their routines. Stand-ups have a quarrel with the universe, a chip on their shoulder that they turn into comedy. "Stand-up is socialized aggression," says...