Many of her lines turn on a subtle shift of expectations, as in, "Frank, about you being such a big tattletale — thank you". Or, responding to Timmy, who suggests he could take a bus to Hollywood, or hitchhike, "You know, I don't approve of that — wasting good money on buses". But even when a joke is obvious, her readings never are.
A critic in The Washington Post called the book a guilty pleasure, saying, "Just when the slapstick tires you, there's a wonderful laugh, a smart one-liner, a tart bit of dialogue, a nice turn on your expectations".
If Howard Cosell returned to do pre-Debate color commentary, he'd likely opine, "Does Romney need an Eli Manning-like fourth quarter in the Do-or-Die-Debate in Denver?" With 50 million watching, what will the Wednesday Debate turn on -- expectations, substance, style (Gore's sighing, Bush glancing at his watch)?
Mr. Marclay's sources are works of narrative, which means they turn on the expectation of what will happen next.
One interesting aspect of the 4th Amendment is that it turns on "reasonable expectations of privacy".
One interesting aspect of the 4th Amendment is that it turns on "reasonable expectations of privacy". In Riley (the helicopter-marijuana case), a majority of the Court noted that their decision hinged on the frequency of civilian flights over others' property.
If someone gets turned on by dogging, fantastic, but they haven't got a reasonable expectation of privacy [laughs].
When decisions based on those heuristics turn out to be bad ones, expectations are confounded and confusion results.
For the younger generation, social media has turned on-demand, personalized help into an expectation.
But belief is starting to turn to expectation.
