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...Alex’s catty girlfriend, and Diane (Maureen Keiller), Mitchell’s agent, become entangled in the events, which begin to spiral out control under the press’ watchful eye. Certainly, when Beane wants laughs, he is capable of conjuring them. His greatest creation is Diane. Acid-tongued and relentless, she is single-mindedly driven to purchase the rights for a play in which Mitchell will (heroically) portray a gay man. Her willingness to verbally abuse all comers into submission until the terms of the contract read “in perpetuity through the end of time?...
...highbrow literature, and Nonami's streamlined prose is arguably not up to her prizewinning best. But this pulpy family psychodrama is hugely entertaining - like watching some filmed version of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test from an adapted screenplay by Mario Puzo and directed by Yasujiro Ozu. And it's not just grotesque fantasy. Now You're One of Us, which was originally published in 1993, as divorce rates in Japan were soaring, is also high-wire social commentary. It's a parodic rebuke of traditional cultural attitudes that subsume individual welfare for the sake of a family unit...
Wright: Yes. If there's going to be an Armageddon, and we'll all be in heaven already or raptured up just in time, it really doesn't matter if you have acid rain or greenhouse gases prior to that. Or, for that matter, whether you bombed civilians in Iraq. All that really matters is saving souls for that disembodied heaven...
...Michael Mansfield, the acid-tongued attorney representing Harrods tycoon Mohamed Al Fayed, apologized to the Lady in advance for reigniting "painful memories" and promised to be "careful" with his words. Then he attempted to dismantle the sisterly bond. Diana, he argued, withheld many of her plans from Lady Sarah - for instance, that she was assembling information to expose companies involved in the deployment of mines in areas like Angola, and that she supplied Andrew Morton with third-party recordings for his tell-all book Diana. "[Our relationship] was fine," Lady Sarah snapped. "I am not saying it was not fine...
...studies showed that fish consumption was still protective against cardiovascular disease. Overall, the evidence indicated that people who had higher mercury levels had less protection than people who had lower mercury levels. What those studies suggested is that mercury might lessen the benefit of fish [and omega-3 fatty acid] intake, but they didn't suggest that fish intake was harmful overall...