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Coming as a reader means encountering the peculiarity of text: isolated, stripped of inflection and emphasis; vulnerable to selective reading, selective sight, decontextualization. Stranger than seeing yourself grinning exquisitely in vacation photographs is hearing your own words thrown back against you: "I was reading the other day," a friend begins, "though I forget where...
...some-such as the ever-dour Doris Lessing-charm is merely a wasteful veneer pasted over more meaningful pursuits. "What is charm then?" she asks and then replies: "Something extra, superfluous, unnecessary, essentially a power thrown away." Nor is she alone in this conviction. "Charm always issues," the choreographer Paul Taylor once commented dismissively during a Harvard lecture, "from some terrible emptiness...
...that I'm older I don't need it so badly. I have lots of trees around my house, and nobody's thrown a punch at me since high school. Still, I always have a version of "Kong" around. It's an emotional insurance policy, a government bond I can cash out when things get to be too much. People do funny things when they're hurting; some of them drink, some of them cry, some of them just go to bed. The night my grandmother died my grandpa sat alone in his living room and read "Treasure Island" from...
...last night of shooting for Elia Suleiman's feature film, "Chronicle of Love and Pain." On a quiet street in Sheikh Jarrah, an Arab neighborhood of Jerusalem, the 40-year-old director's special effects team is having trouble with a Molotov cocktail that's supposed to be thrown in this scene. A group of gawking Palestinian youths offers to help make a good firebomb. "They have experience with this kind of thing," Suleiman says wryly. A 40-year-old from Nazareth, Israel's biggest Arab town, Suleiman takes the gritty realities of life for Israel's 1 million Arab...
...Hernandez's apology in the Daily Californian was itself criticized by people who felt the papers had thrown their lot with censorship. Washington Post columnist Jonathan Yardley wrote on Monday that "what those editors did in California last week deserves no sympathy...