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...Landing on the Sun, and what most likely won it Britain's most valuable fiction prize, the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award, is its profound sense of prosaic tragedy. The laughing stops abruptly at the end of A Landing on the Sun, and in this breathless transition Michael Frayn succeeds magnificently...
Presidents are only part of this unwitting conspiracy. Politics is now a drama of motion. The media love the exhilaration of nomadic statecraft. Anchors like Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather climbed the ladder by breathless appearances at exotic summits from Beijing to Moscow...
...Arabs conspiring to replace a dead Castro with another evil Cuban dictator. Readers who can get past the book's clutter of cliches ("Even his fertile imagination hadn't truly conceived of the ecstasy of ultimate power"), arthritic prose ("Acknowledgment of those limitations in no way comforted him") and breathless dialogue ("There's got to be a way!") will not find it hard to decipher Marilyn's ideological prejudices. The hero is a black Republican Senator from Georgia and a defender of the Star Wars program who is up against a fatuous Democratic President with "little understanding" of his country...
...narrative of Maus would leave the reader breathless with disgust if Spiegelman did not often interrupt it to tell the story of his relationship with his father. The survivor's tale which seems the main thread of Maus's narrative is made more palpable as the reader gets to know Vladek both in camp life and "ordinary" life...
...schedule this month (debuting Nov. 10, 10 p.m. EST). Dave Thomas, the brilliant, underutilized SCTV alum, plays both the actor and the killer, and it's hard to tell which one needs psychiatric help more. Producer-director David Jablin crams a feature film's worth of twists into a breathless 37 minutes and skewers everything from TV's true-crime shows to America's celebrity roller coaster. Pound for pound, it may be the shrewdest satire of television since Network...