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Though it is a funny and touching story, the success of it still lies in Schlink’s ability to dissect human motivation surrounding love. The man’s obsession with his wife’s past, which he slowly uncovers, is at first ambiguously displayed, but eventually Schlink gives us reason for his journey: his own insecurity, his newfound feelings of inadequacy and his flawed, human curiosity. These motivations don’t appear selfish through the careful eyes of Schlink. Rather, they seem pointedly human...
...someone they would like to play. “We trust each other’s tastes and opinions. I defer to the music directors of specific shows because they know their music better than I do. I can appreciate what is quality, but I can’t dissect it like they can,” Baudouin says...
...didn't dissect beetles or anything when I was a boy. There was no great event that made me go into medicine. I had an elder brother studying mechanical engineering, and I was interested in that. My parents had another child between my brother and me who died when he was three or four. I don't remember him, but my father once showed me a little biscuit with the boy's teeth marks in it. Now I look back, and I see pictures of the little boy and the terrible suffering in his face, and I realize that...
...hard to dissect a riot. a sudden eruption of anger and violence doesn't lend itself to tidy packaging. But last week, the people of Bradford were struggling to make sense of frightening scenes when hundreds of youths of Pakistani descent injured over 200 police officers and torched white-owned businesses in a predominantly Pakistani neighborhood. Those who run the city seemed shell-shocked. Was this a "simple" race riot expressing (however illegally) frustration at segregation and police harassment and unemployment? Or a bunch of thugs pumped up on testosterone and booze? Or drug dealers getting back at police...
Flashes of the “Old Summers” would appear when Summers held meetings, and in 10 minutes discuss and dissect memos that underlings had spent six months constructing. “If you wasted one moment, he’d cut you off,” a friend says. The quality of his analysis was always impeccable, but his style ruffled feathers...