Word: yarns
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...long parade of stereotypes.“The only thing you ever own is your story,” says Drover at one point. The importance of storytelling is stated throughout “Australia,” but Luhrmann’s goal of creating his own epic yarn falls short. When “Australia” aims to entertain, it does just that. But when it finally asks us to care about its pair of stick-figure characters, it disappoints. “Australia” may be part “Casablanca,” part...
...actual article nowhere to be found, as if the author had accidentally left it in his other coat--2666 tacks sideways into the mind of a philosophy professor who teaches in Santa Teresa and may slowly be going insane, and then again into another genre entirely, a hard-boiled yarn about a journalist sent to Santa Teresa from New York City to cover a boxing match. It becomes clear only in the book's fourth section that Bolao is performing these lateral leaps the better to observe from all sides the book's true subject: the horrific serial rape...
...will not meet our cozy critical clique again. From here 2666 tacks abruptly sideways into the mind of a philosophy professor who teaches in Santa Teresa, and who may be slowly going insane, and then again into another genre entirely, a hard-boiled yarn about a journalist sent to Santa Teresa from New York City to cover a boxing match. It only becomes clear in Part 4 - "The Part about the Crimes" - that Bolaño is performing these lateral leaps the better to observe from all sides what the reader only gradually recognizes as the book's true subject...
...problem with considering Chahine's career is that, just when you feel he deserves a good spanking, his movies play the cunning jester, and all is forgiven. Destiny, though its beginning and ending are literally incendiary, is at heart a ripping yarn with much buckling of swashes, and musical numbers, too. The Other, a hit at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival (where Chahine received a 50th Anniversary life-achievement award) and at the Toronto and New York fests, is a delirious blast - a politico-romantic amalgam of melodrama and music, at a pace and pitch that Bollywood directors wouldn...
Maybe so; but he has a great yarn, which, as any old seadog will tell you, is even better...