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In private life as in public life, Marius suspects, More was a bit of an actor. Having succeeded at the main chance, he worked equally hard at humility. He played the family man to the hilt. His daughter Margaret was the love of his life. But he constantly harangued his...
Considering the tasks involved, what kind of person makes the best coder? "The kind we have here," Deaton wryly concludes. "Ten compulsive people with a completion obsession."
No Small Affair begins as the chronicle of an obsession but insists on dragging Charles beyond that, Charles could easily stay a cynic, pick up Joel's sunglasses, and say, every now and then, what the... But it cannot. Fantasy cannot be allowed to stay fantasy. (Last summer's Oxford...
THE "Adventure of a Photographer", a maniacal tale of two-dimensional artistic obsession, is one of the finest short stories Calvino has written, certainly superior to Julio Cortazar's celebrated photo story "Blow-Up." In the latter, a photographer tries to piece together the reality behind a photograph, but Calvino...
TV's obsession with glamour seems a throwback to the glittery fantasy worlds that Hollywood created in the 1930s, '40s and '50s, then largely abandoned for social relevance and downbeat realism in the '60s and '70s. "I think the public has been starved for glamour...