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...politics, commerce and manners in modern India. The Peacock Throne does for Delhi and democracy what Vikram Chandra's recent 900-page Sacred Games does for Mumbai (formerly Bombay) and organized crime. Or what 19th century European novelists did when economic and intellectual winds howled: produce teeming, sprawling, barn-burning novels that try to describe everything in sight. The surprise is that Saraf is not, strictly speaking, a novelist. He works full-time as a space scientist for a U.S. defense contractor. Writing is a sideline...
...always with a definite article at the beginning. “Russia is a classic example of what I like to call, ‘the First Law of Petropolitics,’” he wrote in October. More recently, he dictated his “Pottery Barn Rule” for Iraq. I don’t even want to bother telling you what these titles mean, because they’re wonderful enough on their own. 1. Metaphors, metaphors, metaphors, metaphors. You can’t knock a classic. Since the mid-1980?...
...often went barefoot, sang country music songs and, in the evenings, dispensed Jack Daniel's in a manner that can only be called liberal. One evening we pulled into a white Victorian farmhouse straight from central casting, surrounded by corn - close in, like a fence around the house and barn - corn as high as an elephant's eye, rustling delicately in a slight breeze. The sun was setting; you could smell the dark, chocolaty soil. Fred's aunt and uncle clambered out of the house; I remember them carrying trays of food, but that can't possibly be true. Johnny...
...homey waft of vanilla greets you as you walk into the barn-like Dressing Room. There are exposed beams overhead and flickering candlelight everywhere. The walls are paneled in warm woods "that came from a friend of Paul's in South Carolina named Bucky," Nischan says. "We call it Bucky-board." And the place may be new, but it's made to feel lived-in: the Bucky-board is adorned with posters advertising long-past productions?"Olivia de Havilland (in person) in Sir James M. Barrie's Classic Comedy What Every Woman Knows"?like family mementos in the home...
...what one should see, smell and taste. One architect sketched plans for a stark space, all stainless steel and alabaster white. "Paul flipped out!" says chef Michel Nischan. "He wanted very country and very warm." And so a homey waft of vanilla greets you as you walk into the barn-like Dressing Room. There are exposed beams overhead and flickering candlelight everywhere. The walls are paneled in warm woods "that came from a friend of Paul's in South Carolina named Bucky," Nischan says. "We call it Bucky-board." And the place may be new, but it's made...