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...some point in the past year, people asked themselves the question, When is it O.K. to stop crying and start laughing again? Jonathan Safran Foer's first novel, Everything Is Illuminated (Houghton Mifflin; 276 pages), is a very funny book about very tragic times, and it's just a little bit nervous about being so funny. After one comic aside, the narrator?a Ukrainian would-be hipster (and remedial English student) named Alexander Perchov?feels as if he has to reassure his audience: "It was not wrong to make a funny here. It was the right thing...
...heroes I kept coming back to were the beautiful ones whose stories were laced with some kind of sadness, heroes like Rogue, Phoenix, Wolverine and Cloak and Dagger. The best kind of superhero struggles with a crippling weakness, a desire he/she can never fulfill, or, like Spider-Man, a tragic past that motivates his heroic deeds. Spider-Man fights criminals because they killed his dear Uncle Ben. So swoon, people, swoon. To the relief of comics-fans everywhere, director Sam Raimi seems to understand this essential appeal Marvel’s beloved frontman. In all likelihood, Spider-Man will explode...
CheapTickets may be hard to navigate, but it makes up for that tragic flaw by providing wonderful prices to the Internet-savvy. This website offers two different types of searches—the minimalist express search and the much more involved power search. The site claims the power search is geared toward the flexible traveler, but the number of screens one must pass through to execute a power search might lead one to wonder if flexible traveler is in this case equivalent to “one with no life...
...industry notion that triumphs of the human spirit--see almost any Oscar nominee--constitute a higher seriousness. But the response to these conditions should not be to make movies designed merely to drive John Ashcroft crazy. That we have a deadly drug demimonde in this country is a tragic given. That popular culture has a right to examine it is also obvious. But moviemakers have to be something more than movie-smart adolescents to do that job effectively...
...highlights one of the most important reasons it is so difficult to attain peace in the Middle East: too many people misguidedly believe that something of a human being remains after death and that this something will experience pain and pleasure. The suffering resulting from this belief is unspeakably tragic. We need to strive for a better life while we are living. ANDRIES R. VAN DEN BERG Pretoria...