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...left the Marine Corps at 22 and really wanted to leave it…and then, as a writer, I had just finished my MFA at Iowa when I started writing “Jarhead.” I had for a few years avoided the subject all together in my work, and had written fictionally about the Gulf War and the Marine Corps. Eventually, I just kept bumping up against my autobiography. THC: What are the limitations of literature and film in representing the war genre? AS: Well, the bombs are never going to go off in your hand...
...Nevertheless, The Mountain Goats remain The Mountain Goats. Darnielle’s lyrics retain their intellectual density and associative clarity. Moving into more “sincere” subject matter, he reserves a license to artifice by entering an “insincere” medium; hence the overproduced sound and elaborate instrumentation...
...acting is accomplished and although the dialogue clearly attempts to cover its political bases, it is not too heavy handed. The writing tempers the severity of the subject matter with an apt sense of humor. Just hours before his scheduled attack, Khaled anxiously asks his leader what will happen after the mission. “Two angels will pick you up,” he is told. He responds uncertainly, “Are you sure...
...mean the West Wing, so not only is Vinick a man of integrity and principle, but he also comes across as the most Democrat-like Republican the show’s creative forces could imagine (as proved by this week’s episode, which centers around the sticky subject of abortion). All this ambivalence troubles me, because for the first time in seven seasons, the future of “The West Wing” seems genuinely uncertain. Gone are the old music and lighting cues that would tell you to go ahead and root for Bartlet because...
...light.” But in an interview with The Crimson this past Tuesday, Wright acknowledged that he took artistic license with his description of Roberts’ footwear—and with other occasional scene-setting details as well.This is unfortunate. Wright’s subject matter is so powerful and his prose is so elegant that “Harvard’s Secret Court” would rivet its readers even without Wright’s inexplicable outbursts of fiction. UNDER COVEROn May 13, 1920, Cyril B. Wilcox, a Harvard sophomore on the verge of flunking...