Word: abyss
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...whose tongue has been cut out. On its face, the novel is a retelling of the Robinson Crusoe fable, but in its depths I discerned something else entirely, the most profound book ever written about race relations in a society where whites were often separated from blacks by an abyss of linguistic and cultural incomprehension. "Is this not true?" I asked during our interview. "Is this not what you are saying?" The pen scratched, the writer cogitated. "I would not wish to deny you your reading," said Coetzee...
...black slave whose tongue has been cut out. On its face, the novel is a retelling of the Robinson Crusoe fable, but in its depths it is the most profound book ever written about race relations in a society where whites were often separated from black Africans by an abyss of linguistic and cultural incomprehension. "Is this not what you are saying?" I asked at our interview. The pen scratched, the writer cogitated. "I would not wish to deny you your reading," said Coetzee. As the great South African drama deflated, Coetzee seemed to turn to his private life...
...Franklin uses melody as a base camp on her way to bigger things, Sinead O'Connor clings to it as if it were the only haven between her and the abyss. The contrast in styles is made conveniently clear on O'Connor's new double album, She Who Dwells ..., which features a spectacular cover of Do Right Woman. Where Franklin started the song in pieces and pulled herself toward an emotional victory, O'Connor opens Do Right Woman deceptively whole. She does not trill or soar; she just sings notes of remarkable clarity and intensity. But as the Dan Penn/Chip...
...presto! - Aretha is radio-ready. It doesn't take much to make the timeless timely. If Franklin uses melody as a base camp on her way to bigger things, Sinéad O'Connor clings to it as if it were the only haven between her and the abyss. The contrast in styles is made conveniently clear on O'Connor's new double album, She Who Dwells ..., which features a spectacular cover of Do Right Woman. Where Franklin started the song in pieces and pulled herself toward an emotional victory, O'Connor opens Do Right Woman deceptively whole. She does...
...pugilism first-hand. He is a wiry 50-year-old with perfectly coiffed hair, but look closely and you'll see a fine white line snaking above each eye - scars from the gym. He began to learn to box in 1998, when he was "looking down at the abyss of middle age and not fancying the drop." He heard about white-collar fights at New York's Gleason's Gym - once home of Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson - and flew over to box a dentist (yes, a dentist) in March 1999. Upon his return home, acquaintances ventured they'd like...