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...would amount to precisely that today. In Strange Defeat, a superb essay written in the aftershock of France's capitulation in 1940, the historian Marc Bloch wrote: "Let us have the courage to admit what has just been vanquished in ourselves: it is our cherished small-town ways. The languid passage of the days, the slowness of the buses, the sleepy authorities, the shortsighted political bickering, the unambitious artisans, our taste for déjà vu and distrust of anything unexpected which could disturb our cozy habits. All that succumbed to the dynamic energy of Germany and its buzzing...
...senior vice president and Iraq project director. "It's a stepping-stone for moving into the rest of Iraq when the time is right." Last November a television campaign funded by the Kurdistan Development Corp. was launched on U.S. networks with the slogan "The other Iraq" and languid rural scenes that contrasted sharply with the war-ravaged Iraq on the news. Still, that message has not translated for some. "People in the States think I'm living in the desert, one step ahead of someone who wants to put me in an orange jumpsuit," says Harry Schute, a consultant...
...anything from those defeats and to fail to improve would have been deadly. Last season, the Crimson rebounded for the third-largest turnaround in the modern era of its history, winning eight more contests than it had during the dismal 2003-2004 campaign. The energy was back in a languid program. With both All-Ivy big men returning and the existence of clear heirs to the positions vacated by the departing seniors, Harvard would have another “best chance.” Another Cusworth injury tripped the Crimson up a bit after a 5-0 start, but Harvard...
...that ambiguity, that’s what’s so beautiful.” He sees “Brokeback Mountain” as a film that’s “deconstructing that whole theory of sexuality.” SUCH GREAT HEIGHTSThe dense, but appropriately languid screenplay for “Brokeback” is a masterful retelling of an Annie Proulx (“The Shipping News”) short story, adapted for the screen by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana. The Proulx story, first appearing in a 1997 New Yorker magazine, has since become...
...story continues at this languid pace, which could frustrate even hard-core admirers. I could name two, and will. A while back I read the first three books aloud at bedtime to a young female of my acquaintance, and we sailed through them in a month. But no resolve could keep her awake through Goblet. That was six years ago, and she didn?t know how the story came out until she saw the film last week...