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...turns in plot and character, too, can seem overly facile for the material from which they are drawn: the wonderfully brutish Leonid, for instance, a hulking, red-haired Russian boy who makes Ben’s life miserable in high school, turns all too quickly into a misunderstood nice-guy who ends up marrying Ben’s twin sister...
...creatively dubbed “the bee”) with the Brattle Theatre and Houghton Mifflin Company. Looking for an ego boost? The “All-Ages Bee” (read: little kids) starts at 6:00 p.m., followed by the classic film “A Boy Named Charlie Brown.” At 9:30 things get adult when the grown-up competition begins, complete with a beer and five syllable words...
...very few people to have held three Cabinet-level posts--Secretary of State, Treasury Secretary and White House chief of staff. Which job was best? I often say, "Boy, was I lucky to be Secretary of State in that period of time." Communism collapsed. The cold war ended. All of our lives changed. Everybody in the world--except for North Korea, Cuba and maybe a few others--wanted to get close to the U.S. Our relationships with the rest of the world were very, very good...
...been my motto, and the moments had been many and memorable." Thus, at the end of it all, Moss is broke and living, astonishingly, among the masses in a blue-collar housing estate, dependent for a time on handouts from friends, of which he deservedly has many (the abandoned boy that Moss sheltered decades ago, now married and middle class, returns to make his old benefactor a gift of almost $30,000). Far from being bitter about his circumstances, Moss merely notes that it was "especially pleasing" to realize that his neighbors on the estate were the descendants of squatters...
...widowed suburbanite dragged by her son to Uluru, complains: "Nothing had happened." But those who relax into Malouf's dreamy prose, the rewards are pleasurable and profound. In The Valley of Lagoons, we enter the stillness of the Gulf country through the consciousness of a 16-year-old boy to discover "an interweaving of close but distant voices so dense that they become one." The sensual motion of a swimmer is watched so intensely by a woman undergoing chemotherapy in Towards Midnight that the reader is drawn into "the fleshy roots of her iris." Each story carries its own quiet...