_Narrative_

[Victor Steinbok]

I had pretty much the same interpretation: "something to talk about".

It's not that the tanks ARE the narrative, but they MAKE a good subject
FOR a narrative, which is shortened to "are a sexy narrative".

VS-)

At 1:37 PM -0400 6/12/11, Wilson Gray wrote:
>> Patrick Corcoran asserts that the [jury-rigged] armored vehicles [now
>> being built and used by the Mexican drug cartels] are not
>> game-changers. "Whereas the 'narco-tanks,' as the vehicles are often
>> called, make for great blog-fodder and provide entertaining videos,
>> seeing their rise as a significant escalation in Mexico's drug war
>> would be wrongheaded," writes Corcoran. "In the end, the 'tanks' are
>> [just? merely? only? none of the preceding?] a sexy _narrative_."
>>
>>
>> What is it that I'm supposed to understand the meaning of _narrative_
>> to be, in this context?
>>
>> --
>> -Wilson
> On 6/12/2011 4:20 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
> "are a sexy narrative" = 'make for a good story' ?
>
> LH

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