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...Louis Gates and DerekWalcott, and Hemingway aficionados, Prose did notblink at asserting the necessity of the totallyinconceivable: "You have to ignore the content"she counseled, "and focus on the style." Not onlyhas Hemingway's valuable work been whittled downto a novel and some stories, but one is obligatedeven to sift away the bulk of those works,searching for what is valuable in the style alone...
...OVER CASTING AGENTS: Getting auditions depends on currying favor with casting pros, who sift through thousands of head shots and videotapes. "I narrowed the field down to 20 girls, and Julia's natural, soulful quality stood out," says Francine Maisler, who cast Before Women Had Wings. Disney's casting exec Marcia Ross, who saw nearly 200 actresses for the 10 Things role, remarks, "You can see it onscreen--she projects an intelligent depth, she's not girlish, and she'll easily grow into adult roles...
...though I dug up a pile of books to sift through, Widener doesn't provide much in the way of study space. The building doesn't even offer e-mail access. I could have situated myself at one of the carrels in the basement in dank air beneath leaky pipes, but I happened to find something better...
...though I dug up a pile of books to sift through, Widener doesn't provide much in the way of study space. The building doesn't even offer e-mail access. I could have situated myself at one of the carrels in the basement in dank air beneath leaky pipes, but I happened to find something better...
...launched a secret program to harass his network. Using its own informants plus the counterterrorism center's computers, which tracks passports worldwide, the CIA would spot bin Laden operatives in foreign countries, then quietly enlist the local security service to arrest or deport them and allow the agency to sift through materials left in their apartments. In many cases, the CIA didn't know "exactly what each person was doing," says an intelligence official, "just that he was doing something with a terror organization, so we should disrupt...