Slog - Comments on Should There Be A Moratorium on Nonessential Charlotte Brontë Paraphrases in Criticism? http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/should_there_be_a_moratorium_on_nonessen From Manohla Dargis's review of Year of the Dog (which opens in Seattle next week): What gets everything moving, including [the writer-director's] somewhat sneakily or perhaps cautiously articulated intellectual interests (this is, after all, a studio-bankrolled comedy), is [the beagle] Pencil’s untimely death, which tears a hole in Peggy’s world and eventually her psyche. For Peggy, a woman who greets her beloved four-legged friend with a toothy smile that rivals the sun for warmth (Pencil shines right back), this isn’t the death of some adopted stray, one in a line of carelessly loved dumb beasts. It is a shock to... Copyright 2008 Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:55:33 -0800 Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:50:58 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Fnarf That device should be used ONCE and once only. Maybe again, by someone else, in twenty years or something. C'mon, how hard is it to write a sentence?

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/should_there_be_a_moratorium_on_nonessen#c693181 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/should_there_be_a_moratorium_on_nonessen#c693181 Arts Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:16:59 -0800 Comment by exelizabeth Oh no, I think it's got a couple more years before it gets old. Jane Eyre was only published 160 years ago. When the fad had hit 165, then it may start to seem a little tired.

]]> exelizabeth http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/should_there_be_a_moratorium_on_nonessen#c693204 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/should_there_be_a_moratorium_on_nonessen#c693204 Arts Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:43:18 -0800 Comment by Boomer in NYC Everything in Seattle is a week behind everywhere else that counts.

]]> Boomer in NYC http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/should_there_be_a_moratorium_on_nonessen#c693279 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/should_there_be_a_moratorium_on_nonessen#c693279 Arts Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:00:06 -0800 Comment by stacy yay! a slog post about my favorite bronte. the week is complete.

]]> stacy http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/should_there_be_a_moratorium_on_nonessen#c693447 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/should_there_be_a_moratorium_on_nonessen#c693447 Arts Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:50:58 -0800