The love of anecdote and gossip makes for a pacy read; one so propelled by chronology and concision that the actual films get short shrift.
Never any sense that the US would be so organised, or so bloody-minded, or so propelled by the home crowd, that they would deliver 90 minutes of stunning overachievement.
For the past ten years or so, propelled by an epiphany he once had at the loading dock of a Winn Dixie, the artist Brendan O'Connell has been painting Walmarts: people shopping, and products on shelves, and people removing products from shelves and paying for them.
That's where I learned to write, to report, and to… For the past ten years or so, propelled by an epiphany he once had at the loading dock of a Winn Dixie, the artist Brendan… Some years back, Brendan O'Connell had a revelation at a Winn-Dixie.
By Susan Orlean February 19 , 2013For the past ten years or so, propelled by an epiphany he once had at the loading dock of a Winn Dixie, the artist Brendan O'Connell has been painting Walmarts: people shopping, and products on shelves, and people removing products from shelves and paying for them.
Frazier was so regimented, so propelled not specifically by triumph but by maintaining a dedication to this process.
The film doubles as a concert film and backstage musical, and its meandering plot is oddly compelling, if unevenly so, propelled by Young's hypnotic score (coming out in conjunction with the film).
So what propelled it to mass success?
So what propelled Kirakira, which means "sparkly" in Japanese, from the dregs of the App Store to the home screens of any influencer worth their weight in Likes?
D.T. Max's article (Nov. 6) made me blink because academic discourse in literary studies so often propels itself forward with some version of the rejoinder "Actually, it's more complicated/nuanced/intricate than that".
I don't think I've ever seen one so forcefully propelled by a comic idea.
