Word: sameness
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“I took a 4 hour bus ride followed by a 12-hour, all-night train ride to get to Helsinki when my first flight was cancelled,” Gabrielse wrote. “However, the dust came roughly at the same speed and the Helsinki airport...
Female talk show hosts have traditionally been relegated to daytime, due perhaps to the same mid-century marketing logic that gave us the soap opera: more women are home watching television during the day than are men. Take for instance Ricki Lake, Kathie Lee Gifford, or the Eumenides that populate...
Like a scarlet letter, an accusation of plagiarism is perhaps the most devastating fate that can befall a man or woman of letters. Doris Kearns Goodwin, for instance, will never quite enjoy the same reputation she had before scandal erupted over an unquoted passage in “The Fitzgeralds...
Referencing Viswanathan’s novel in one of the 618 numbered vignettes that constitutes “Reality Hunger,” Shields reveals his disappointment at the media’s smear-campaign against the young author, then a Harvard sophomore: “Excuse me, but isn?...
Woolf and Beckett should not be considered as artists in pursuit of the same common goal, but according to Shields, the work of each nevertheless demonstrates certain aspects of the “reality” Shields demands in art: the replacement of traditional plot structure for the uninhibited emotional...