Mr. Blustein follows this crisis from Asia to Latin America with a storyteller's eye for dialogue and details.
Other short stories he wrote during his time at Ibadan (including "The Old Order in Conflict with the New" and "Dead Men's Path") examine conflicts between tradition and modernity, with an eye toward dialogue and understanding on both sides.
Even the most secure system can be cracked by a Spook with an iPhone and some eye-popping dialogue consisting of mainly made-up jargon.
And it's all in the eyes: his dialogue is cut-to-the-bone minimal".
He gravitates to the kind of regional misfits who drew Flannery O'Connor's eye, and his dialogue is snappy and eccentric, like a combination of two masters of the craft, Elmore Leonard and Charles Portis.
It will of course have the expected cartoonish violence and occasionally eye-roll-worthy dialogue of any game, but the attempt to realistically, and at this level of fidelity, represent such a major and well-known portion of history is an undertaking of gargantuan proportions.
She managed to mold some of the most eye-roll-inducing dialogue into something honest and believable, and use it to channel Ani's wreckage.
They should call on Turkey to stop the fighting against the Kurds, agree to a bilateral ceasefire, so that Turkey would accept a third eye on the dialogues and negotiations".
Like all teen dramas, it suffers from eye-roll-worthy dialogue ("I don't follow the rules, I make them. And when necessary, I break them") and an insistence on trying to shove in cultural references ("Can't we, in this post James Franco world, be all things at once?").
His ear for dialogue, his eye for the prosaic detail of places and people, smells and food, come straight from the reporter's toolkit.
