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Flatliners Masterfully plays along the line that divides reality from fantasy and horror, and blurs the lines between text and truth. It maturely treats serious and powerful themes like death, guilt and self-knowledge. And though Flatliners may occasionally remind the audience members of their worst nightmares, it is a rich, thought-provoking film that finally does a much-maligned genre justice...
While the book's plot is not always able to sustain suspense, Turow's style is perhaps the book's most consistent and sturdy feature. Turow writes simply and directly, with sentences that rarely extend for more than two lines. But though they are short, he packs a lot of description into them. Occasionally, Turow carries an extended metaphor that is pithily expressive; he once ties together in one paragraph Clara's preoccupation with music and death...
...attacked Iran. He had once given refuge to the Ayatullah Khomeini, then, under pressure from the Shah, expelled him. Not only did Saddam want disputed territory, but he was also provoked when Khomeini began calling for the overthrow of Saddam's "blasphemous" regime. He is a Sunni Muslim, though most Iraqis belong to the rival Shi'ite branch, as did Khomeini. Saddam responded by invading, confident that his powerful, Soviet-equipped army could easily smash the Ayatullah's ragtag militia, but the Iranians fought back. When the going got especially rough, Saddam turned to poison gas, a horror weapon outlawed...
...there are larger reasons for seeing it. It reminds us of how ideologically determined the "revolutionary" view of 20th century art has been. One of the pernicious illusions about modernism lies in treating it as a continuous struggle against the past, as though every real artist were his own Oedipus. In fact, the house of inspiration is much larger than avant-gardist rhetoric has ever allowed. The great transformers of art history, like Picasso or Matisse, were also its great conservators. The idea that one tradition was killed stone-dead in 1907, when Picasso painted Les Demoiselles d'Avignon...
...that Steinbrenner will be pressured to resign. Deciphering Steinbrenner's motivations has never been easy, since there is always a peculiar disconnection between his words and his deeds. But last week he was uncharacteristically inaccessible; a press release, which might charitably be described as disinformation, made it seem as though baseball had given him a gold watch and a retirement party. "For some years now I have been preparing to turn over the operation of the Yankees to my sons and sons- in-law," read Steinbrenner's statement. "My son Hank, subject to league approvals, will become general partner...