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...armed, one-eyed Gao has become the village pariah. When their scorn becomes more than he can bear he unleashes a savagely violent revenge that begins his days as a hunted, merciless bandit. And yet, in a moment that I missed on the first read, during a breathless chase scene, he puts a ladybug out of harm's way. During his travels Gao crosses paths with Akanemaru, a sculptor on his way to visit a temple. Akanemaru shares his campfire, a kindness that Gao returns with a hateful crippling of the "proud" sculptor's arm. From here the book switches...
...paraphrase Walt Whitman, a U.S. election contains multitudes. The long, drawn-out campaign - the primary season, the spring offensives, the summer punctuated by the scripted drama of the party conventions, the mad dash from Labor Day to the finish line, the debates, the breathless and sometimes inaccurate projections of state-by-state results by TV anchors - add up to a political carnival in which, like a Brueghel painting, there are enough details to satisfy any taste. All elections matter. The U.S. presidential election, because it chooses the leader of the nation whose policies have so much impact on the world...
...Arms" is the quintessential Encores! musical. In part that's because the show's plot - a bunch of Long Island kids, the spawn of vaudevillians, decide to put on a big show in the barn - serves as inspiration for the bustling, two-week schedule of an Encores! revival. The breathless rehearsal-and-production pace guarantees that performers don't have time to worry their interpretations to death; they rely on skill and intuition. And it helps create an exccitement, an urgency, in the audience. If you happen to be out of town for five days, you could miss it. (That...
...Atlanta had its share of delays and construction snafus before a last-minute frenzy snapped its facilities into place in time for the 1996 Games. But the Greeks have brought their own special brand of drama. Work stoppages, the sacking of organizers, procrastination, glacier-speed planning and now a breathless dash to the finish have already made these Olympics memorable for the wrong reasons. "Let's not kid ourselves. These are the Greek Games and they're being done the Greek way," says a Greek project manager overseeing several venues south of Athens...
...some government works project or a tariff or even a job training program. Rather, it's a young company that does one thing: Searches the Web. How could that be? Haven't we learned our dotcom lesson? Aren't we too smart to fall victim once again to the breathless enthusiasm that seems to blow from the west like the Santa Anna winds...