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...repel rather than to seduce. Or rather to repel and then tack on a little spurious uplift as he finally does here. Another way of putting that is that he is precisely the opposite of Diane Arbus, hopelessly enthralled and self-endangered by her obsession, yet somehow finding in her art the means of controlling it-at least for a time. Shainberg, in contrast, wishes only to lie about her life. And exploit...
...Flushed Away wants to convince you that the threat of tadpoles plaguing London is somehow more horrifying than the actual pestilence of rats every large city suffers from. But it's a fantasy-with attitude. Toad is, if not a racist, a species-ist; after some rats bungle an assignment, he complains, "I should never have had rodents do an amphibian's job." It has fun at the expense of Germans and especially the French, who are portrayed as cowardly and snobbish. ("You find my pain funny?" asks Toad of a French creature called Le Frog, voiced by Jean Reno...
...Adventures in Surrealism,” and I’m desperately looking for a reference to support my assertion—that many people who’ve never really learned about surrealism are still familiar with aspects of it that have been copied or parodied or popularized somehow...
...Bless America.” Not everyone heard Guthrie’s original lyrics protesting the plight of people who “stood there hungry” in line at the relief office; George H.W. Bush, an unrepentant booster of privatization and welfare reduction, somehow managed to use “This Land” during his presidential campaigns...
...Dragon Fire” is a cautionary tale for budding politicians and aspiring novelists alike. Former Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen has somehow managed to write a political thriller that purges both politics and thrillers of nearly every redeeming element...