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Your picture of the overcrowded cell in the Illinois Correctional Center looked great to me. I spent two years living in a cramped berthing area on board a Coast Guard cutter. There was nothing we could do to change our conditions. We didn't dare riot...
...dissent has begun to bubble in party ranks. Rajiv, at least outwardly, seems less adapted to playing pointman for his mother, but he starts his new career with two big advantages: by the corrupt standards of Indian political life, he is Mr. Clean, and Congress Party members will not dare challenge his authority if they want to remain on the good side of Indira Gandhi...
...Yorker. Anyone who chooses to live in the Village opts for the extremes of city life ? squalor and elegance; beauty and danger; stoop ball and art show. He also indicates that he enjoys the potential anarchy of city life? an idea that appeals to more than dare admit...
...underplaying of the Method. His Merlin is also a perfect avatar of the sorcerer behind the camera. Love Excalibur or hate it, but give Boorman credit for the loopy grandeur of his imagery and imaginings, for the sweet smell of excess, for his heroic gamble that a movie can dare to trip over its pretensions- and still fly. -By Richard Corliss
...unfortunately, it also makes one restless. It's just too perfect, and in the end it is, dare one say it, awfully boring. What's crystalline and well-crafted often leaves one cold. When Helprin's not affecting an especially tedious antique style for telling whispy tales of love lost and childhood winters in Vermont, he proceeds with an eloquent lack of inspiration. Neat shaping of sentences and admirable technical confidence do not make up for a lack of that obscure energy that transforms les mots justes into great writing. In some ways the style belongs to the 18th century...