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...course, he becomes a superhero—“The Great Machine”—and dons a really goofy-looking suit. With the help of his best friend and his mentor, he builds the cool gadgets that start coming to him in dreams. Zipping around the city in a jetpack, he tries to save lives. Problem is, he’s not so good at it. His wild powers end up causing more trouble than they prevent. In a typical example, he saves a kid by shouting “full stop...
...allow for beautiful artistic and narrative latitude, these books can refer to real-world issues only obliquely. Ex Machina, however, does it directly and with wry humor. Mitchell comments on the limits to his heroic powers: “People blame me for Bush in his flight suit and Arnold getting elected governor. But truth is…those things would have happened with or without...
...being led away at dawn. Often, Montefiore records, the dinner "sank to the level of a Neanderthal stag night." Stalin would get so drunk, Nikita Khrushchev remembered, that "he'd throw a tomato at you." Lavrenti Beria liked to slip tomatoes into the old Bolshevik Anastas Mikoyan's suit pockets and push Mikoyan against a wall so that they exploded...
Despite his status as a veritable academic superstar, Appiah showed up at the Book Store last Thursday—a stone’s throw from his former office, in an unpretentious navy-blue suit, with tortoise shell glasses perched on the end of his nose. He spoke carefully and delicately, with an accent that reflected his own complex identity—Appiah would draw out the “ir” in circle as an Englishman, but would pronounce the “er” in “mother” in the American...
...known for his punctuality, Summers arrived fifteen minutes early for the meeting after a short walk across the Yard from his office in Massachusetts Hall. Wearing a suit but no coat in yesterday’s temperate weather, Summers was accompanied by his chief of staff, Jason Solomon...