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...corporations do public relations charity work, but we shouldn't lose sight of the fact that they're doing this to look good," he said...
...most frightening scenes in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol occurs when the Ghost of Christmas Present reveals to the yet unredeemed Ebenezer Scrooge two ragged and wolfish children--a boy and a girl, cowering in the folds of his robe. Even flint-hearted Scrooge is intimidated by the sight of them: "Where angels might have sat enthroned, devils lurked, and glared out menacing...
...time compression is effective in that it provides apersonal connection to history. The events of the past 200 years are not described as affecting faceless numbers of peasants and aristocrats but as affecting individuals with names and, occasionally, faces. At the same time, however, the book does not lose sight of the larger issues, allowing the import of the book to be more general than the isolated story of one family's experiences...
...addition, at several times during the book, the author repeats himself or speaks in such detail about the specific actions or eccentricities of an individual family member that the narration is slowed and for a time loses sight of the larger picture that the stories are combining to form. These difficulties, however, can be overcome fairly easily...
...characters in their schnapps and vodka guzzling, this innovation allows for wittiness of reference: we got to see flappers onstage during the longer instrumental passages, and hear mention of Greta Garbo, Dillinger and Einstein. The evening's comedy embraced everything from metahumor and operatic in-jokes to puns, sight-gags and slapstick, and the freshness of the jokes kept the story lively through a potentially interminable second...