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...limits. "The literature I care about most comes out of a deeply rooted sense of place," says Kennedy. "Without this element, the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst, a thin gruel of the ego." The author's fondest appreciation of his birthplace is O Albany (1984), three parts raffish history to one part autobiography...
...stabilized. He slowly regained consciousness and was able to move his arms and legs. The next day he was pointing to his mouth, indicating that he wanted his teeth brushed. Physical therapists exercised Clark's arms and legs to prevent the muscles from atrophying. He was fed a gruel-like mixture through a tube inserted in his nostril and snaked down his throat and into his stomach. At week's end Clark was still slowly improving, although his doctors remained concerned about the possibility of brain damage...
Even if a state's citizens and leaders decided that it was fine to cut costs by giving inmates gruel and just enough space to brood lying down, the federal judiciary's notions of decency would no longer permit them to do so. During the past ten years, a conservative Supreme Court affirmed, and then cautiously circumscribed, the range of prison conditions deemed unconstitutional, and the discretion of lower federal judges to order remedies. In its 1976 decision in the Texas case Estelle vs. Gamble, and even more powerfully two years later in Hutto vs. Finney, a case involving sickeningly...
VIDEO GAMES FLATTEN BOREDOM. They project the banality of the assembly line onto two-dimensional electronic hallucinogenics. Their garish griminess is as dipped in materialism as the somber sootiness of the factory. Like factories, they furnish the means of subsistence--a numbingly overspiced gruel of colorful flashes, bangs, whooshes, titillating, not nourishing the senses. Their predictability flexes but little the imagination. Punching in the clock; pressing the start button. Filing form A and tightening bolt C evokes the practiced and repetitive pacing of the player's dot across a screen. Punching out the clock; GAME OVER...
Will argued that "modernity" has made the U.S. vulnerable because it has made our sense of "citizenship" and "warmth" become "thin gruel...