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...impact can turn on the writer’s success at what Winston called “floating the balloon”—applying the tools and tricks that “will give a speech life and lift once you have the basic message and theme.” Those strategies range from humor to props, rhetorical devices, poignant quotes, stirring anecdotes, and cultural references. “You’re rhetorical Doctor Frankensteins,” she told students. Participants filled the IOP conference room to capacity, diligently scribbling and typing notes...
...This is a story about somebody who suddenly wakes up one day and looks at the world entirely differently, and starts to feel like their life is closing in on them,” Fergus says.Fergus defines the film in very personal terms, linking themes of the movie to his own life and philosophical outlook.“I think about [destiny] all the time, but I don’t really have any sure answers about it,” he says. “I feel like there’s omens all around when you?...
...action. Hopes stay high with several scenes of Conway swindling naïves into buying him alcohol. Mirth abounds when Conway drops a garbage bag full of dirty laundry in a coin-fed washing machine to the crescendo of the “2001: A Space Odyssey” theme. But all expectations for a substantial movie are dashed when the screen cuts to Conway whining out a bed-top soliloquy. Here, we see the film for the Malkovich-a-thon it really is. Malkovich delivers a glib tour-de-force in which no fake accent is left unspoken...
There’s nothing less satisfying than a bad ending to a mystery novel—except one with no ending at all, only themes strewn about everywhere and an excessively long and unnecessary line of accusations made at an innocent and unknowing reader. It seems that in “Angelica,” the latest novel from Arthur Phillips ’90, the plot builds to such a point that there is nowhere to go but to a tragic stand-still. Perhaps that’s why he recycles the plot three times from the perspective...
...last tunnel: Brian, Jack, Lawrence… Why don’t we just give up? I mean seriously, what’s the point?” This is the rare book of comedy that, however irreverent, is also genuinely powerful.Of course, premature adulthood is a fitting theme for a 22-year-old author who earned a two-book deal from Random House before his Harvard degree. Not to mention Rich’s arguably greater distinction last month, when the New Yorker published three pieces from “Ant Farm” in its humor column. Among...