Word: trappings
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Until Your Heart Stops gets caught in its own trap. McNally employs a simple naturalistic style in his prose and plot which loses itself in the maze it seeks to depict. He creates a world so true to life in its senselessness that the audience finds it meaningless. Its premise of the book is McNally wants to teach us that we cannot be taught...
...cleverly as the next clever boy some four decades earlier in college. But this was no book I was studying or one I was writing . . ." Here a slight demurral seems appropriate: this is obviously a book that Roth is writing. His claim to the contrary is part of the trap he sets for literalist readers...
...instability of time and memory in the face of war and death. As one character remarks, "Poe was right: our thoughts are palsied and sere, our memories treacherous, sere and rusted like old knives...it must be in the nature of things." Memory is a bridge but also a trap for Cela's villagers, especially tricky when dealing with murder and revenge as well as the civil war. For in consolidating fact and fiction, truth and myth, memory can create an epic out of everyday incidents. But Cela also questions the relevance and meaning of memory in a world where...
...alternative healers, the effort is welcome news. "While a few worry that it's a plan to trap and discredit them, most look at this as a chance to be vindicated after years of being called lunatics," says Jacobs. The medical community has been cooler. Though the office's $2 million appropriation is a pittance in NIH's overall annual budget of more than $10 billion, critics resent that any sum is being diverted from traditional research. Some carp that the office will be a refuge for quacks -- a charge Jacobs flatly denies. "We're not created to rubber-stamp...
When Kennedy does offer firm predictions, he falls into the trap of most consensus forecasters: projecting current trend lines ad infinitum. There are few surprises in Kennedy's universe -- no new ideologies galvanizing the masses of the Third World; no medical breakthroughs to forestall the graying of the developed world; no method to recycle wealth from North to South. Global population pressures represent the strongest aspect of Kennedy's bleak portrait of life in the next century. Small wonder that he begins with a tip of the hat to Thomas Malthus' dire -- but ultimately incorrect -- late 18th century prediction...