There is a feeling of Greek drama about the narrative: a lot of the real action happens offstage.
Chasing Authors « A Guy's Moleskine Notebook - 0 views
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His language seems deliberately chosen to shock and disturb, arouse, repel, and finally shake the reader out of complacency into a concerned state of action. His major themes are repeated: the terrible pull of love and hate between black and white Americans; the constant war in one possessed by inverted sexuality between guilt or shame and ecstatic abandon; and such moral, spiritual, and ethical values as purity of motive and inner wholeness, the gift of sharing and extending love, the charm of goodness versus evil.
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War is a force that gives us meaning - 0 views
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It is peddled by myth makers -historians, war correspondents, filmmakers novelists and the state-all of whom endow it with qualities it often does possess: excitement, exoticism, power, chances to rise above our small stations in life, and a bizarre and fantastic universe that has a grotesque and dark beauty.
'The Big Lebowski' and Its Dude Get the Academic Treatment - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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"It's got that elusive and addictive quality that a great midnight movie has to have: it blissfully widens and expands in your mind upon repeat viewings. "
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Great SP 3 at end of 1st paragraph.
A Grim Energy Report Sets Stage for Climate Negotiations - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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The cost of reducing carbon emissions — through energy efficiency, more investments in renewable power, electric vehicles, expansion of nuclear power, and building carbon capture and storage technology for coal-burning power plants — would be high. But for each year of delay in an agreement, the world will eventually have to spend an additional $500 billion to cut emissions, the agency said.
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"The cost of reducing carbon emissions - through energy efficiency, more investments in renewable power, electric vehicles, expansion of nuclear power, and building carbon capture and storage technology for coal-burning power plants - would be high. But for each year of delay in an agreement, the world will eventually have to spend an additional $500 billion to cut emissions, the agency said."
Grammar Girl :: How to Use Semicolons - 0 views
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Sometimes people seem frustrated because they have to remember to use commas with coordinating conjunctions and semicolons with conjunctive adverbs most of the time. If you can't keep the difference straight in your head, it can help to remember that commas are smaller than semicolons and go with coordinating conjunctions, which are almost always short two- or three-letter words—small words, small punctuation mark.
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Good tip for distinguishing between SP 1a vs 1b
Arianna Huffington: Israel Diary: A Tale of Two Visits - 0 views
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So it was particularly jarring to drive straight from the school to the West Bank to see the Jewish settlements that have become a flashpoint of the stalled peace process. The security wall. The roadblocks and barbed wire. The separate roads that the Palestinians have to use. The checkpoints and "buffer zones." The very large, sprawling, and very permanent-looking Israeli settlements carved out on Palestinian land. No wonder Palestinians feel like strangers in their own land.
Furor Over Alan Carlin, a Climate Change Skeptic - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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But the newly obtained documents show that Dr. Carlin’s highly skeptical views on global warming, which have been known for more than a decade within the small unit where he works, have been repeatedly challenged by scientists inside and outside the E.P.A.; that he holds a doctorate in economics, not in atmospheric science or climatology; that he has never been assigned to work on climate change; and that his comments on the endangerment finding were a product of rushed and at times shoddy scholarship, as he acknowledged Thursday in an interview.
Music - Jay-Z Confronts the Anxiety of Being Influential - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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In his real life Jay-Z comfortably does grown-up things: organizing and performing at a 9/11 charity concert at Madison Square Garden last Friday; playfully parrying marriage questions from David Letterman; delivering well-honed therapy-speak in an interview with Oprah Winfrey for her magazine; attending a Grizzly Bear show.
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