Word: unflinchingness
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In my life, I have killed only one fish and still cringe at the experience. I was eight and at the supermarket with my parents. They wanted carp for dinner, and I wanted the live one from the tank so my sister and I could play with it in the...
Characters in the "Star Wars" universe are not as simple as they seem, however. Anakin Skywalker, promising and generous child, falls so far into the Dark Side that he emerges as Darth Vader, the most evil of all. Yet, even he is redeemed at the very end--by love. Luke...
Ellroy's prose is hard-hitting and relentless. His self-revelations are just as unflinching. From the non-fiction side of the book, "I hated and lusted for my mother and went at her through postmortem surrogates. I buried her in haste and burned flames for other murdered women. My...
Perhaps the individual who most comes out on top in 8MM is road-weary director Joel Schumacher, who puts together his most focused and polished directing job in years, dating back to a time before he started doing ponderous John Grisham adaptations and over-glitzy Batman flicks. As David Fincher...
His disappointments were legion: the vanquishing of Hashemite rule in Jerusalem and the West Bank; the vain efforts to negotiate a permanent Palestinian settlement; the bittersweet peace with Israel; even the falling out with his younger brother Hassan in the last six months of his life. His quiet but unflinching...