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However, the serious achievement of these mostly very funny narratives is their uncanny points of resemblance to our “real” reality??the reality of “reality?? being something that Saunders, with his predilection for describing individuals trapped in hegemonic, perspective-maiming systems, often calls directly into question. This is a world “very much like” our own, as one pair of characters in “In Persuasion Nation” is shown “escaping the old folks’ home, going to live...
...Oddly enough, the most successful countries in the “old” EU are those which do not belong to the Euro area: the United Kingdom, Sweden and Denmark. With huge costs and scarce benefits, the risk of a European disintegration has never been so high. In reality??and this was precisely the rationale of the monetary unification gamble—the Euro area is a single large economy, and, as such, needs proactive and cooperative macroeconomic policy of both the fiscal and monetary variety if it is to survive and prosper. The most urgent structural...
...think the perception—and very often, the reality??is that there’s nothing queer students can do about same-sex harassment, either because it isn’t taken seriously or simply because there’s no safe space if you’re being harassed by a roommate or teammate with whom you have to share space,” he said...
...animals are linking arms under a tree branch hoping to reach for the moon, but only moving closer to the moon’s reflection in the stream. It’s a subtle reference to Buddhist philosophy but also, more importantly, a powerful statement on illusion and reality??and perhaps art itself.And though the Sackler’s exhibit is in essence a reflection of a reflection—a Western perspective on an Asian perspective on animal life—it shares the positive connotations of the painting. “Evocative Creatures” gives...
...Borat” character sequences from “Da Ali G Show” —most of the humor comes from back-road and eccentric Americans saying and doing ridiculous things.It’s a little more “reality?? when, in this week’s episode, Daisy becomes a bounty hunter, she doesn’t just go to training camp (as Ali G did when he visited the Philadelphia Police academy in a memorable episode), but she actually puts the handcuffs on two bail fugitives. While in premise it?...