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...Hollywood money-mavens say that The Men Who Stare at Goats and the man who stares at ghosts did so poorly? Because, in the land of make-believe, the success of a movie is as much perception as reality. Insiders predict films' box-office take in the early part of the week, monitor the returns on Saturday and then, when the numbers are announced on Sunday morning, say how surprised or disappointed they are. Forecasting the weekend grosses has become a rabid Internet pastime, and the spur to free publicity when news services cover the "story" in Sunday columns like...
...county has partly tailored its approach to serve its large non-English-speaking community. "Many of our newly arrived immigrants don't understand what they can do to support their child's success, and they don't understand the system - there's no point in going to the school board when you're concerned about your child's homework," says Anne Thompson, director of the Miami-Dade program. Because of language issues, she often sees students having to do their parents' jobs in terms of navigating school bureaucracy. (See pictures of teens and how they would vote...
Thus begins the actual story of “Shrew.” Bensussen manipulates this play-within-a-play trope to great success for the majority of the opening scenes. The actors take on their roles with the delightful awkwardness of children in a school play—scripts in hand, direction shouted at them mid-scene, and endearingly over-the-top line readings. Yet as the show progresses, the actors become more comfortable in their roles, and the production shifts from a clever tongue-in-cheek commentary on social performativity into a relatively normal presentation of Shakespeare?...
With such success on the ground, the Crimson’s passing game has seen less of the statistical spotlight...
Such self-consciousness is the mark of much modern writing as well—quite notably, that of Paul Auster. Auster is a master of metafiction, writing about stories and within stories, writing about writers and the act of writing. From his initial success with 1987’s “New York Trilogy” to more recent novels like 2004’s “Oracle Night” and now with “Invisible,” Auster continues to surround his novels’ protagonists in layers of text...