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...tacked-on ending seems like an easy way out of the spiral of commotion that the events build up to. It's as if Shue finally agreed to consent and said, "Enough!" But the abrupt change reads more like an easy way out of a fine mess. As the grand finale approaches, all of the characters are running around the room, slopping food on each other, and singing. Their ruckus is ingratiating in small spurts but after a while it becomes annoying theater. Like dupes, they try to mimic the Nerd in the hopes that he'll be repulsed...
...Radcliffe College president Linda S. Wilson spoke of two kinds of career paths. One is direct, like an arrow, taking a person from, "one triumph to the next;" the other is a spiral with "detours and some backsliding along...
First-years should not be afraid of the spiral and should always try to keep the "capacity to recognize opportunity," Wilson said
Instead Dunne chose to spiral around the Blue Tyler myth in great, windy loops of speculation, reminiscence, industry gossip and dear-reader throat clearing, delivered by a self-absorbed and only fitfully interesting narrator named Jack Broderick. He's a middle-aged screenwriter whose wife has just died, so he's at loose ends. There is almost no action or dialogue in present time. What the author offers is Broderick, onstage alone, scratching his head and relating what he has learned from a phone call or an old police report. Blue had a husband named Teddy who got stoned...
...NASA, which lost its clear sense of purpose after the Apollo program ended in 1972. The space shuttle proved fatally unreliable, and the proposed space station has been stuck on the drawing board for 10 years. With no vision to lift NASA, the agency is trapped in a downward spiral of mediocrity only slightly relieved by the brilliant repair of the Hubble telescope last winter. Administrator Daniel Goldin recently proposed a new mission: NASA should set a long-range goal of finding a habitable planet close to a nearby star. While this might have very long-term survival advantages...