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It's a kind of fiction, he suggests, uniquely suited to a country often shaped by "a symbiotic tension between a rigid, obsolescent order of values and a more 'modern,' disenchanted, pragmatic, and intellectually mobile emergent one exemplified by the observer(s)." The narrators are plain modern guys, and they look in wonder at the shining archaic hero.
In this funny and genuinely instructive guide, Mr. O'Brien gives advice that's both down-to-earth and worldly on subjects from "How to Be Polite" to "How to be Sexual" to "How to Be a Friend," to help modern guys transform themselves into modern gentlemen.
Even sensitive modern guys tend to shy away from this feeling stuff.
We may not always want to watch a film about a group of friends who simply wanted to live life as modern guys and girls, in a modern country that is part of a modern world, but when we do watch The War Show, we realize that "they" are really "us".
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Is it possible to be a modern guy and a Middle East potentate?
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