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There are problems, however, in the songs themselves. Some of her musical themes start out promising to be catchy or sad or rousing. Unfortunately, she doesn't expand on these motifs; no variations in rhythm or melody surround the original cores. The result is a group of songs--each with the rhythmic variety of a chain-link fence--which do, after a while, become a trifle wearing...
...columns of a daily newspaper. Both the brick structure and the word structure are equally important. If we had no building there would be no place to lay out typewriter, and if we had no typewriter there would be no need for the office building. So we surround ourselves with expensive bricklaying tools or machinery with which to transpose our thoughts into solid, soul-satisfying, black-on-white print and go to it. To our dismay, we find that our initial endeavors are not what we hoped them to be. Our bricks are laid slightly askew, or our words...
...sister died "of a failure of analysis". Daniel`s book has already been a system of analyses, sermons and exhortations, designed to show how political lives are shaped far outside of what we've come to think of as political channels, Who knows if the bourgeois radicals who surround him have considered the imperatives of their past; if they haven't, their revolt will prove short-lived, Daniel has shaped a new kind of historical inquiry-an honest kind. He uses both Freudian psychology and Marxian sociology, but they don't contradict each other; because he understands his parents strength...
...most cases reach the court), briefs, transcripts, memos from clerks, notebooks-every Justice's file on virtually every case that may come up during the taxing all-day session. It usually takes two or three carts to hold each Justice's material; 20 or more of them surround the massive mahogany table and nine high-backed chairs by the time the first Justices arrive and begin making small talk while pouring themselves cups of coffee from a silver...
...Woman. If Liv is headed for a bad end, one would have a hard time proving it by Hollywood. Not that the film colony is blind to the pitfalls that surround her. She is still unfamiliar to mass audiences in the U.S. For every Garbo or Ingrid Bergman before her, there have been dozens of European actresses who have not traveled well. While she was protected by Ingmar Bergman, she had no real chance to make career mistakes. Since being on her own she has made at least two: she signed up for The Night Visitor, a forgettable thriller...