Stefan Kanfer
Stefan Kanfer
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american-producer equivalent evening literary sequins writers-and-writing
They are the literary equivalent of sequins on an evening dress.
powerful black-and-white strange
There's something strange and powerful about black-and-white imagery.
grief sadness loss
Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.
powerful two firsts
Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that it is a salient feature of modern life.
opera stuff soap
The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of noonday soap opera.
nice modern-life use
...telephone operators now routinely use '80s-babble, chirping, "Have a nice day," the moral equivalent of the smile button.
privacy aphorism posing
An aphorism is a personal observation inflated into a universal truth, a private posing as a general.