Word: towardness
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...emotional growth if “Who Do You Think You Are” weren’t two tracks from the end. Still, the last song, “Ain’t Gonna Lose You,” has a mellow humility that goes a long way toward making you forget some of the things that came before. Oh, but “San Francisco.” His voice has that languid indie raspiness perfected by acts such as Regina Spektor and Arcade Fire, which lays on a coat of artificiality right from the get-go. After...
...campaign chairman Finn M.W. Caspersen and the family of Lazard CEO Bruce J. Wasserstein, who donated $30 million and $25 million, respectively—the two largest donations in the school’s history. The Wassersteins’ and Caspersen’s gifts will go toward a facility housing an academic center, a student center, and offices for legal clinics...
...than just two seasons. Second, when the plot is failing, return to the writing. Witty and interesting dialogue was always a higlight of these shows, and it might be able to sustain them; maybe if the writers were more careful, they could make the protagonists seem less one-sided toward their demons.It’s painful to watch the shows I once loved die out. Now that the titular antiheroes of “Dexter” and “House” have shown their true colors and moved past their main conflicts, everything seems like...
This metonymic technique serves Komunyakaa well, allowing him to provide fresh insight into the things that make up war. But it sometimes veers toward a laundry list or a museum description. The second section of the book, which deals with the implements of war, sometimes loses its momentum due to the weight of the nouns that are loaded upon it. Komunyakaa excels at unemotionally describing scenes and letting the reader draw his own associations from the poetry. However, in poems like “The Clay Army,” he doesn’t add anything beyond the basic...
...played by the iconic sixties starlet Brigitte Bardot—abandons her husband for the narcissistic, almost ghoulish American film producer Jeremy Prokosch, played by Jack Palance. Bardot, in a wide-brimmed hat and large black sunglasses that recall Jackie Kennedy, displays a cold yet alluring ambivalence toward her piggish new lover. They exchange brief words, casual affections, but barely understand one another—Bardot’s character speaks no English, Palance’s hardly any French. Godard cuts back and forth between the ill-conceived new couple and Camille’s jilted screenwriter husband Paul...