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...Marquis constantly drops down from his director's chair to challenge Marat's understanding of and dedication to the Revolution. The Marquis clearly has the upper hand here: it is he who is fully dressed and of strong body, whereas Marat lies rotting in a blood-stained bath; it is he who controls the actions of his cast; and it is he who has written the script...
Smoosh-in or mix-in? Cafe Latte or Espresso? Apricot bath gel or avocado soap? Add one more perplexing question to the neurotic shopper's list...
Still, Escobar has haunted Colombia ever since he escaped in July 1992 from his farcical incarceration near his hometown of Envigado, in a custom-built prison complete with king-size bed, private bath and Jacuzzi. Over the next year, he succeeded dozens of times in eluding the 1,500-man Search Block unit that pursued him by moving clandestinely among his supporters in Medellin and the surrounding countryside. His hiding places included secret rooms carved out between walls, under stairs and underground. Often he cloaked himself in artful guises, dressing as a woman or riding in coffins as a corpse...
...predicts Richard Ofshe, a social psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley. And in the process, Emory University psychiatry professor George Ganaway fears, it may "trigger a backlash against ((legitimate charges of)) child abuse. As these stories are discredited, society may end up throwing the baby out with the bath water -- and the hard- earned credibility of the child-abuse-survivor movement will go down the drain...
With novels, side trips are okay. "A novel for me was a wonderful feeling. It was like getting into a warm bath and being able to spread out and loll around in these lovely paragraphs and pages of description." Fair warning: a warm, lolling author does not mean that readers and characters will escape Proulx's lash. She assesses the tone of her Accordion Crimes as "black and scarlet...