Word: switches
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...bait-and-switch that, imperceptibly at first, draws the reader into the emotional realm of the soldier. Gingerly, he piques our interest with funny anecdotes and moments of suspense...
...Sith” to appropriately sum up its awfulness. Set on a lava-filled planet that looks like the Bowser stage from “Super Mario Bros.,” Obi-Wan (Ewan McGregor) and Anakin (Hayden Christensen) exchange heated words on Anakin’s abrupt switch to the Dark Side. The only thing screenwriter George Lucas can think to give Padme (Natalie Portman ’03) to say at this important moment is, “Anakin, you’re breaking my heart!” Not only did my own heart break at hearing...
...clever visual queues, White provides a coolly detached and analytical narrative over emotionally wrenching scenes. Rendered in full color, using a myriad of different styles, North Country takes full advantage of its graphical opportunities to enhance the story. Only a handful of comic artists have the self-confidence to switch from a sad scene of failed escape rendered in the old-fashioned color dots of past comics, to a harrowing red-hued sequence of a kiddy party interrupted by a berserk relative who starts a shoot-out through the window. Seemingly out of nowhere, Shane White has arrived with...
...crimes, and it could be your neighbor, or the local high-school gym teacher, or whatever. They are real human beings. They had childhoods, they had events in their lives: their first kiss, their prom date, all of this stuff. That's what I'm interested in-the psychological switch in their brain that takes them from being a person like everybody else, and puts them in a position where they can justify a murder or a rape, or all of it combined...
Friday, Oct. 7. “Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream.” Barbara Ehrenreich, who lived the life of a low-wage worker in “Nickel and Dimed,” discusses her newest book, an exploration of the white-collar world of career coaching and networking events. 7 p.m. First Parish Church, 3 Church...