Others simply share narrative elements and a version of the hardboiled sensibility associated with classic noir, such as The Castle of Sand (1974; Japan), Insomnia (1997; Norway), Croupier (1998; UK), Blind Shaft (2003; China), and The Square (2008; Australia).
An article in the Times Educational Supplement by Chloe Combi provides a sober perspective, describing how easily accessible pornography is making secondary school pupils think pubic hair is ugly on women, sexting is normal and that porn film narratives and scenarios depict a version of real life to be aspired to.
This is a little precious for a religious — we wonder about her right away — and, when it comes time for her story, she delivers what is surely the most offensive (to us) narrative in "The Canterbury Tales": a version of the so-called blood libel, in which Jews are portrayed as killing Christian children.
Mr. Ritchie's work is most accessible approached as an arcane serial narrative, a biblical version of science fiction.
He said he had long been thinking of an installation based on the fluidity of time and that he was attracted by the narrative qualities of the Sichuan tableau, a version of which he saw as a youth.
Some of them have egregiously racist motifs (and there is strong demand for these among African-American collectors), and some have delightful narratives, like the one that performs a version of the nursery rhyme "Hickory Dickory Dock".
They focus on philosophical issues, relying heavily on a version of Martin Heidegger's narrative of cultivated despair with our technological age.
Among Page's albums were Folk Song Favorites (1951) and Manhattan Tower (1956), a version of a Gordon Jenkins narrative tone poem produced by her musical director Vic Schoen.
In 2008, Marian Burros offered a version of the conventional narrative in the Times: Either J. F. McCullough or Tom Carvel deserves credit as the first soft-serve maker.
But perhaps the so-called Alice is a version of Killen's second narrative character, Clair?
