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...everything from archaeological digs to Congressional internships to the dishes at Pizza Hut. In diverse places, they are meeting different people and shaping the eclectic attitudes they will bring back to school in the fall. But almost anywhere they may have ended up, they can count on the uniting strand of a popular culture that is so target-marketed and spun that you could predict its essential substance without ever picking up a specific record lable or movie poster...
...executives of a corporation compete for the top position. While their strategies may differ greatly from each other, the outcome of the election does not necessarily steer the government in a different direction. Indeed, it is helpful to realize that the two parties are simply branches of the same strand--they are not separate, opposite entities as the voters are led to believe. Indeed, no matter which man gets elected, especially in the short run, the public would hardly be able to distinguish between their actions...
Such works remind you that the view of Homer that was current 20 years ago, and that this show corrects--that he was a realist in a simple and straightforward way--was wrong. It reckons without the deep strand of existential pessimism that runs in Homer's work and that creates its own symbolic structures. For Homer, as for another great and underrated artist, his contemporary Rudyard Kipling, man is at constant war with his surroundings in a world that cares nothing about him and gives him no natural allies. The moment you step from the social path, where security...
...major strand of the novel follows Frederica's attempts to make a new life for herself and prevent Nigel from taking her son from her. This conflict will wind up, of course, in court. So does another subplot of the novel, the appearance of a strange, semipornographic novel, Babbletower, about a group of escapees from the French Revolution who try to form an ideal community and lapse instead into an orgy of violence and torture. Chapters of the novel are interspersed throughout the first half or so of Babel Tower, and when the thing is finally published, with the helping...
...utter lines like, "You think I want a life of peanut butter and jelly? I want lobster. I want caviar. I want style." Perhaps the beginning of the end really came toward the climax of this last season, when Amanda had cancer. She didn't seem to lose a strand of hair during her chemo treatments, but she came out of it all stripped of her fine-tuned ruthlessness...