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...reasonable concern for a story that, despite its size, centers itself around big questions, such as the unknowable power of space and time to erase, restructure, recreate. As usual, DeLillo’s concern for the shadow of self-consciousness falls over this work, altering the gravity of his story??s simple plot...
...example, Taylor Swift’s “Love Story?? is arguably a great song, not just for country fans or tweens, but for the earth. Yet, though Swift may be the songbird of our generation, she is a terrible actress. Cast as a ditsy and shallow high school senior, a job that shouldn’t be too much of a stretch for Swift, the squinty-eyed blonde delivers forced line-readings and is generally far too over the top. Her boyfriend is played by real life boyfriend Taylor Lautner...
...conceive,” said Walt Disney of the cinematographic field he helped pioneer. Since Disney popularized animation however, its creative potential has been largely underestimated and the genre has often been relegated to essentially childish themes. Even animated films such as “Toy Story?? and “Up,” that received widespread critical acclaim, attained commercial success by marketing themselves as movies intended for pre-teens...
Despite Munro’s clear attempts to move outside her comfort zone—even making one story??s narrator a man—the stories of “Too Much Happiness” still firmly belong in Munro Land. And despite subject matter that includes a fair amount of sex, drugs, and violence, her stories still read with the same quiet calm, so much so that it often takes a couple minutes for the full weight of the subject matter to sink...
...that are ideologically opposed, yet equally uncompromising) do nothing to help solve the conflict, and instead serve to embitter and further polarize people—as evidenced by inflammatory comments from readers on both sides of the issue posted on the Crimson’s online version of the story??over what is possibly the most pressing issue of our time...