Word: randomized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Without a compelling reason to go on this journey, What Dreams May Come can only provide random scenes that vary in effectiveness. A scene with a mysterious woman in heaven who chose the body of a beautiful Asian because of a fleeting memory from her childhood suggests fascinating possibilities left unexplored. But, most of the effective sections are marred by an egocentric focus on Williams' Chris Nielsen, as if heaven exists only for his sake. The film suggests that heaven for Nielsen is a place where all human lives have been shaped entirely...
...liberally charging the lone Caucasian at an Asian American Association's event with fetishism is just as dangerous a problem. While fetishism pinpoints cultural ignorance, random charges of fetishism impede attempts to address that very cultural ignorance by dispensing guilt. I wanted to learn more about my friend's ethnic history simply to fill a gap in knowledge I did not know was there until meeting her. Yet guilt tainted any attempt to fill that...
While she says her decision "was almost random," she is "happy with [her] choice...
Life offers such a grim plenitude of fatal accidents, of deaths visited on the undeserving without discernible pattern or purpose, that serious fiction, as opposed to mysteries and thrillers, tends to shun or downplay such events. Writers and readers alike expect stories to make sense, after all, and random tragedies simply don't. So author William Trevor takes something of a risk when he opens his latest novel, Death in Summer (Viking; 214 pages; $23.95), with a woman riding a bicycle along an English country lane being hit and killed...
...quiz, which was intended to increase awareness of the University's network use guidelines, asked true-false questions in a random order. Students were allowed one mistake and could take the quiz as many times as needed until they passed...