Word: instead
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...illustrates Mailer's colossal ego and his ultimate failure to live up to his own image of himself. The biography could almost paint Mailer in a tragic light, but ultimately he seems too unconcerned, too disconnected from a reality and an America that he himself helped to fashion. Instead, Mailer's life appears comic, with the only constant being his love of shock tactics and always appearing unpredictable. Although he has lived a life full of exciting people and events, I don't necessarily envy Norman Mailer. It seems like he could never enjoy any of it, like...
...Lack of master narratives like Marxism, Darwinism, religious creeds, etc. that explain everything. Instead there are a bunch of competing mini-narratives striving to be heard...
...admirable that Hamid maintains measured prose and restraint--it would have been easy, especially in the more dramatic scenes and the chaotic later chapters, to let the narrative go berserk. Instead we get to watch lunacy come in careful and slow streams, and the effect is wonderful. None of the prose is brilliant, though it is never dull...
...saddened by the insipidness of the current pop culture scene. So I'm trying to stay positive. I still want to be able to turn on MTV without deconstructing LFO lyrics, to watch the WB without critiquing the dialogue, and to read Entertainment Weekly in the open instead of hiding it between the covers of Jedidiah S. Purdy '97. So instead of dressing in black and writing poetry on the benches outside the Barker Center, I found news of three intriguing scripts that will soon find their way onto a screen near...
Ryan said Harvard is "not reluctant" to return remains in its possession, but instead wants to be sure it makes fair decisions...