Word: impressionism
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Those who wondered not only whether but how Roth would resolve his dilemma now have at least an introductory answer. The first installment of Mercy of a Rude Stream displays documentary rather than novelistic ambitions. It takes its young hero, Ira Stigman, from his eighth year, in 1914, after he...
Instead, it creates the curious impression that its actors worked against a blue screen projecting handsome views of a nameless Pacific Northwest city (actually Vancouver) and glamorous life-styles. They never seem to be in touch with their environment, their ostensible professions or, for that matter, one another.
Skulduggery is Shawn Eckardt's passion. With no record of military service, Eckardt boasts that his skills include unconventional warfare, surveillance, psychological operations and something he calls the "Secret Service characteristics matrix for assassins." He claims to have worked as a counterintelligence specialist for a Swiss company 10 years ago...
When people describe Collins, they do so in oddly contradictory terms. Thus he is said to be one of the most compassionate people in the world, and also one of the most aggressive. He is a skeptical prove-it-to-me scientist but is also capable of deep religious faith...
There is already talk of a genetic backlash, a revolt against the notion that we are our genes, or, as one critic put it, that our Genes R Us. John Maddox, editor of the journal Nature, warns that the greatest pitfall of the genome project may be what he calls...