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...death, rediscovers the “smooth everydayness” of life, of the traveling and travailing he has endured in the driver’s seat of his car. Here the prose is free-flowing, movingly lyrical; Kincaid’s rich voice, tinted with her Antiguan accent, carried the audience along with the words. But the story shifts from a third-person narrative of Mr. Potter to the “I” of one of his daughters, who shares with her family members only the shape of her nose. This...
...added color to Gus Van Sant's 1998 remake of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. And now Phillip Noyce's Rabbit-Proof Fence, his first Australian foray. "Yes, I'm from this place but I've been away for a while," says Doyle, 49, in his manic Mandarin-tinged accent, "so maybe I come back with a slightly different...
...faking it all along? Losers BILL CLINTON Ex-Prez would have been convicted, says final report. And all this time, America has been wasting its attention on the war on terrorism DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN Historian quits Pulitzer jury because of plagiarism problems. It turns out she also borrowed that accent from the Kennedys TED KOPPEL Anchor is peeved when his network reveals it wants Letterman. Koppel consoles himself by saying he always wanted to work at PBS anyway...
EXPLOITED JANITOR: (Dickensian, in a cockney accent) Please sir, may I have some more...
Indeed, this is basically a buddy-buddy, up-to-the-movie-moment story with dashes of the traditional coming-of-age novel tossed in. More Tom Sawyer than Huckleberry Finn, with the accent on a soft center rather than on gritty harder edges, the formerly "re-educated" Dai Sijie's first novel - a best seller in France - is still a diverting bagatelle abounding in gentle humor, warm bonhomie and appealing charm. No small triumph for a tale set in that unhappy era not too long ago when "every nook and cranny of the land came under the all-seeing...