Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Right-thinking creationists do not impugn evolution. What we reject is a universe that made itself out of nothing or is in eternal flux and presumes that we humans are little more than a strange fluke on the route to quantum mechanics. Pure evolution raises serious questions about such matters as justice, freedom and rights, for if there is no God, then, according to the principles of evolution, the more powerful must always win while the weak and inferior deserve to be trampled or eliminated. With the unqualified acceptance of evolution, the creationist concepts of perennial values of equality...
...must have called the right ones, because I suddenly got messages from agents I'd never heard of from places like William Morris. I had created some sort of bidding war among agents who were afraid of missing out on whatever it is they thought it was I did. I decided to hold out for lots of free breakfasts. This, I figured, might be the "Joel Stein business...
After I told Weitz he could be my agent, I found out I was also allowed to get a manager, even though they do the exact same thing. And it would only cost 20% of nothing. I told Weitzman to come aboard. He wanted to get right to work, starting with a meeting later this week with Weitz. So now I'm looking for a screenwriter to complete the team. I'm offering 10%. Please send applications to my agent...
...been convicted of a single murder. This pesky legality results in some narrative discordance. For 300 pages, Blind Eye has Swango killing people right and left. Yet Stewart's conclusion contains a flurry of qualifying statements like "Swango is the first alleged serial killer in this century to have emerged in the guise of a physician." However inconvenient, writers have to obey libel laws; too many lawyers are watching. But where were the language police when Stewart chose the word guise? It means semblance, and if we know anything for sure, it is that Swango did not resemble a doctor...
Mostly, they all--including the likes of Rosanna Arquette, Ally Sheedy and a lot of people who, like the characters they play, deserve to be better known--get what they want. Or at least manage to make the right compromises. Like the lives it recounts, Sugar Town comes to no resounding conclusion. But that indeterminacy is part of its seductiveness, part of its truth...