Word: blandings
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...perhaps Schami has the last laugh. He knows just what he is doing. As he says, "Lies and spices are brothers and sisters. Lies turn any bland fare into a piquant delicacy. The truth and nothing but the truth is something only a judge wants to hear." He fibs about Syria; he shamelessly serves up his heritage, re-seasoned for Western palates while still claiming authenticity, and passes his work off as a critical development in fiction. To quote the blurb on the back cover: "Slyly oblivious to the Western cartographies of narrative art and faithful only to the oral...
REPORTERS: Elizabeth L. Bland, Hannah Bloch, Barbara Burke, Tresa Chambers, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette / Isaac, Daniel S. Levy, Michael Quinn, Jeffery C. Rubin, Andrea Sachs, Alain L. Sanders, David Seideman, David E. Thigpen...
REPORTERS: Elizabeth L. Bland, Hannah Bloch, Barbara Burke, Tresa Chambers, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac, Daniel S. Levy, Michael Quinn, Jeffery C. Rubin, Andrea Sachs, Alain L. Sanders, David Seideman, David E. Thigpen...
...money. In scenes requiring extended dialogue, they lapse. When carol goes to visit Doc in prison, her demeanor screams "Barbie on a business trip." She seems like she is visiting her agent before a stroll down the runway of a fashion show. Her tone is flat, her acting bland and the expression in her eyes show profound fixation--on the telepromptor. It is only in the sex scenes that we remember that they are married lovers...
...forced to come back to real life, whose "gray areas" he speaks of with reverence. Yet he spends the rest of the article informing us which side is black and which is white. For this is perfect media fare: the evil that lurks beneath a New England town's "bland reassurance...