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Similar dualities predominate Bergman's camera work. While Johan paints on the heath, the grass appears soft and fresh, but when he has a flashback about killing a boy while fishing on the rocky bluffs, those cliffs become jagged and sinister. And when Johan retreats to the woods, he imagines...
Too steady a diet of excursions that lead only to more excursions, of interruptions of prior interruptions, can render readers peevish. Ultimately, The Unconsoled suggests a considerable talent pursuing a questionable achievement. Ishiguro has created the literary equivalent of an endless bad dream: the fright engendered by impossible expectations, the...
The Bells attribute the delays to less sinister causes. U.S. West blames any slowness in providing lines on the robust growth of the Rocky Mountain region. In addition, the loss of lucrative corporate clients to the upstarts could force the Bells to jack up rates for less profitable residential service...
If we grant that humans can be tools of the devil, let's remember he's our tool as well. As the majestic adversary in Paradise Lost or the heavy-metal party animal, Satan may be a capable tempter. But not until he falls into human hands is the Old...
As for the U.S., China sees a pattern that may not in fact exist. The Clinton foreign policy in general is somewhat ad hoc and driven by politics. The approach to China is no different, but Beijing sees something more systematic and more sinister. "In China, more and more people...