Word: readerly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...With other events, the government's tactics have been to dominate the initial coverage and then let the story die a natural death. Normally, "within days the story starts to blow over and there's reader fatigue with it so they move onto to the next story in the news cycle," Bandurski says. "It's very effective." But that method is trickier with an issue like the taxi strikes, which are the result of long-standing grievances - sometimes going back a decade - that have been left largely unaddressed. Unlike other protests, these strikes are not directed specifically against the communist...
...Lowdown Any reader knows he's in trouble when the author finds it necessary to earnestly overexplain the book's title. Shadows at Dawn, in this case, is meant to refer not only to the hour the massacre took place but to the "murky, often elusive nature of historical truth," while "Borderlands" refers both to the contested area separating the U.S. and Mexico and also to the demarcation between "history and storytelling...
...missionary, trying to translate the Bible for the Pirahã. He tells us with off-putting honesty about his family’s near-fatal brush with malaria, and how his own ignorance almost killed them. He divulges touching but insightful tales about the Pirahã, allowing the reader both a better glimpse of the scarcely tenable culture and provoking a chuckle, or a pang of empathy. His anecdotes exude an exotic mystique, generating a certain sense of fantasy. One wonder how can such a people, such a place exist? Take Everett’s story of his brush with...
...idea behind [The Voice] is that it’s a multimedia publication in the true sense of the world multimedia,” says Derek M. Flanzraich ’10, who until recently held the title of Director of Multimedia at The Voice. Through reader comments on The Voice’s website and related blogs, the publication seeks to create a consistent dialogue between its print and digital forms, Flanzraich says. The Voice also recently began a partnership with Harvard-Radcliffe Television to provide a significant amount of online video content...
...famous, then one’s forgotten again.” Zollner serves as the artist’s more dynamic, optimistic foil. He, in all his self-absorbed vanity, is a character you will love to hate, for beneath his flaws lies a self-consciousness with which the reader can identify. While he may be a narcissist, a pompous jerk, and a pathological liar, he is not defined by those qualities alone. Motivated by commercial opportunism, Zollner is initially attracted to Kaminski only to advance his own interests. But after spending time with the man behind the legend...