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...Faulkner’s characters. Emulating Quentin in The Sound and the Fury, I’ve destroyed my watch and begun wandering through Cambridge, searching for my lost youth. Please understand that while my level of understanding grows deeper each day, my connection to these texts is tenuous at best, and cannot be disturbed by such time-anchored requirements like “chapter deadlines.” I’m sure Faulkner would agree with me when I say that artists don’t have time to listen to critics like you. In fact...
Despite the press release’s claim that the tome “charts her unprecedented decision to run for Senate…and shows how Hillary used her White House experience to amass power in her own right,” the book has only tenuous links to Clinton’s current career as a senator and her future prospects as a Democratic presidential candidate...
...Whether Democrats or Republicans win, their boosters will speak of a repudiation or a vindication on a grand scale. If the Montana mayhem tells us anything, it’s that our democracy is too tenuous to make such claims truthful...
...cannot make exceptions to murder just because they are “necessary.” On what moral grounds can we destroy three inarguably unique human beings, on average, in order to make one? This “take life to make life” ethic is tenuous at best, but more importantly, it is precisely what the right to life movement openly decries in its opposition to stem cell research...
...parts: "The Pledge," in which the illusionist produces a common object (or ordinary person) and promises to do something wondrous with it; "The Turn," in which he subjects this object to an astounding transformation; and, finally "The Prestige," in which perhaps a life, but certainly the illusionist's always tenuous hold on his audience, is held in thrilling and suspenseful balance. This narrative structure analogizes rather neatly to the customary three-act movie plot and it is both clever and apt of Nolan (he of the backwardly told Memento) to underscore this point...