This week's titles: "Sense and Sensibilty," "Shanghai Girls," "A Good Talk: The Story and Skill of Conversation," and "The Bostonians".
Other Austen Titles: Sense and Sensibility (1811); Pride and Prejudice (1813); Mansfield Park (1814); Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, published posthumously in 1817.
Given that piece's intimidating format and invitation to endless revision, the title made sense.
The title makes sense: Mr. Cunningham turns 90 that day, and the choreography runs nearly 90 minutes.
The movie's title means "sense," which, in Visconti's view, is exactly what the overheated Italian manner burns away, letting primal emotions trump sophistication.
More characteristically liminal is a piece made of 253 clear plastic push pins that spell its title, "False Sense of Security," across two walls.
And, in a way, playing down her most intense, brilliant book with a soft title makes sense: Hampl is a memoirist almost completely devoid of ego.
For Cech in particular there might be a pleasing circularity to Chelsea's third title, a sense of returning to where he once was.
There is a terseness to these tales (more than half of which have a single word for a title), a sense of impatience on the part of the author.
It has a less catchy title, Uncommon Sense: Economic Insights, from Marriage to Terrorism, and it is likely to be outsold by SuperFreakonomics by a big margin.
