Word: readerly
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...reader can never become exasperated with a writer who refers to sex as "a pelvis-to-pelvic impaction" or "root and canal work"; who acts as his own randy Roget, gleefully riffing on synonyms for roundness of breast ("rotundity, globularity, orbicularity and globosity") or anthropomorphizing his favorite female body part as "pouting, bulging, arching, ballooning, gravity-defying, ... surging, quivering, heaving, swaying, intoxicating, tantalizing, bouncing, suffocating, yes, even overwhelming...
...overworked executive secretary (Emmanuelle Devos) is given permission to hire a trainee-assistant. She chooses a newly paroled con (Vincent Cassel), a hunky lunk, but observant enough to divine her well-kept secret, which is that she is virtually deaf. She covers this defect by being an expert lip-reader. Now, this is a skill a bad guy can use. Soon she's perched on a rooftop, peering through binoculars, learning the secrets of a criminal gang whose ill-gotten gains he plans to heist. The comedic first part of Jacques Audiard's film doesn't achieve a seamless connection...
...that the thing of real value she gave her husband was complete freedom to pursue his art. A more disingenuous conclusion is hard to imagine, given Ned's lack of emotional support over many decades. It is Ridley's achievement that she navigates impartially through this minefield. But a reader may justifiably decide that the achitect achieved fame despite his wife...
...bear on a novel that swings between metaphysics and the stark facts of violence. The journalist and the freedom fighter alternate in narrating their story, though as the book progresses their voices blur, even as their relationship decays. The absence of names or a clear chronology can confuse the reader, but man's sense of displacement is one of Kopperud's central themes. A Buddhist monk spells it out for the journalist: "Everything and everyone that comes together must sooner or later be parted, and until you are able to accept that, you will suffer." He suffers...
...word glory. If a high school textbook cited a sitting president telling his aides, "I don't give a shit what happens," parents would sue the school board. "The Civil War for Dummies" even has three chapters for the Civil War tourist that operate under the assumption that the reader is a licensed driver, enumerating the battlefields one may visit without even getting...