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...want the cleanest, most direct, simplest, most expressive possible language. The violence of the language is directly tailored to the violence of the story that I am telling. I love the American idiom, I love profane American language, I love Yiddish, I love racist argot, I love this whole obscene potpourri of the American tongue, and I love putting it into my books...
...talk to me about ideas or cinematic flair. The basic, and simplest, pleasure of art will always be that of the recognition. I recognize that this movie is based on the Cinderella prototype. Set in a trendy and capricious L.A. high-school, She's All That is a fairy tale about the undoing of the golden age of senior class president, honor student and captain to the soccer team, Zack Siler (Freddie Prinze, Jr.). His status is threatened when his prom queen shoo-in girlfriend (Jodi Lyn O'Keefe) returns from spring break with a tattoo and a new boyfriend...
...this is the simple premise of Valparaiso (say: "val puh rise oh"), the new play making its stage debut at the American Repertory Theater this month. Its simple premise, however, is deceptive: Valparaiso was written by Don DeLillo, a master of illustrating the complex nature of even the simplest situation and the inherent ridiculousness of the culture we live...
...simplest response to this poll is that the 1000 women surveyed are not representative of the mood of the entire female population of the country. I really want to believe that. But for the sake of argument, let's imagine that this poll does represent a shifting attitude on the part of women towards religious influence on political life in America. Let's imagine that there really are lots of people who watch "Touched by an Angel" every week. It's time to start paying attention to that shifting attitude...
...that the merger was a last resort for Netscape -- a direct consequence of the beating it took because of Microsoft's underhanded grab for market share. And regardless of the new world order, the image of one of the world's most brilliant businessmen pretending not to understand the simplest questions about his own company will be hard to dispel. A new playing field doesn't mean you didn't cheat...