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...comprehend the nature of the argument. Within each point, the author is required to marshal evidence to convince the reader that the thesis of the essay is perfect. In the case of the weary workers, for example, the author might cite personal discussions, even if the vulgar language contained therein, i.e., "My job sucks," would not typically be suitable for an essay...
...work over that decade redefined the terms of painting for a whole generation of young Americans, opening up the possibilities of the painted figure once more. In their time, Guston's paintings seemed like a kind of treason to the high-minded refusals of late Modernism, but therein lay their newness--and their influence. They confirmed that in American art refutations exist to be themselves refuted...
...therein lies the self-medicator's quintessentially American creed: I can do it better. As usual, the boomers lead the way; 35-to-54-year-olds, Troup reports, consume more vitamins and supplements than any other group. From Flintstones vitamins to marijuana to echinacea. Back to the garden, indeed...
...politesse. They don't quite understand Martin's dismay when he discovers that his boyhood home has been replaced by a convenience store--where the clerk gets so lost in a noisy video game that he fails to notice a real-life gun battle breaking out in his aisles. Therein lies this movie's fundamental irony: anarchy may bloom from Martin's gun barrel, but unlike his old pals, he is not in denial about it. He is still trying to nurture the shoots of old-fashioned squareness that remain rooted in his soul...
...therein lies the problem. As Solatzo the Turk says, "Blood is a big expense," and in reality being bad is all fun and games until someone loses an eye--or, in Bugsy's case, a head. After a tiff over Vegas (Bugsy said yes, Lucky said no, and the mafia world was divided forever after over the fate of America's top sleazepost), Luciano had Seigel shot, ending an era of mafia power that only the Corliones could revive. In Puzio's restive family we see all that Lansky and his pals could never capture: the tranquility...