Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...subject matter bounces from Hitler's last words (the Further entertains a few possibilities, including "BINGO!," before settling on "I never asked to be born in the first place") to the final moments of his first wife's existence (an event which is treated with great respect and tenderness and features some of the book's most skillful imagery). If anything is a digression, it's the barely developed timequake plot itself...
When Stone finally got around to discussing the role of personal vision in film, he shuffled through a few more cliches before revealing his ultimate desire: an intensely personal film with the director as subject, a la Fellini's film-on-film...
...first half of the book would be most fascinating for anyone curious about apocalyptic movements and Christian history in general. Gould's research is thorough, and, considering the subject matter, he does a decent job of not sounding like a textbook. Focusing on material from both the Old and the New Testament, Gould charts the stories of various movements and how they dealt with their failures when the world stubbornly did not end on their prescribed date...
...Julian, Gregorian and Jewish calendars. Gould details the mathematics behind the leap year system and explains calendrical curiosities from Hanukkah to George Washington's birthday. Gould attempts to expand into a commentary on the philosophical relationship between reality and scientific inquiry, but does not give himself the vocabulary, subject matter or space to say anything profound...
Discovering how those steroids work and finding which allergens inflame the airways of asthmatics are the goals of O'Byrne and his team of 15 researchers at McMaster. In their studies, O'Byrne will continue to be a test subject. "I wouldn't have learned the things I have about the disease," he says, "if I weren't looking at my own airways, my own cells, my own lungs...