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Szara's safety net is espionage; he becomes a full-time NKVD operative in Paris charged with maintaining ties to an imperiled Jewish industrialist in Berlin, who somehow knows how many bombers Germany is building each month. Fear not; Dark Star never becomes one of those breathless adventures that build fake suspense around schemes to stop Hitler. Plot is less important than Furst's powerful descriptive writing, particularly his account of Szara's nightmare flight across Poland in the first days of the war. What carries the book to a level beyond the cynicism of spy novels is its ability...
...eclectic menu of offerings. Fully half the pages are devoted to business, culture and beauty features. A monthly news section dissects the good, the bad and the baffling from the runways of Paris, Milan and New York, and tracks the latest in fabrics, furniture and architecture. In place of breathless beauty tips, Mirabella may poke fun at questionable treatments...
What do you get when you combine Gregorian chants, a disco beat and quotations from the Marquis de Sade delivered in a breathless whisper? Only the most popular dance music in Europe. Sadeness is currently a No. 1 hit in 13 countries and is stealing the show at cutting-edge discos in the U.S. Romanian-born producer Michael Cretu calls his odd creation Enigma music. Cretu claims the ancient music of the Catholic Church -- "a rather mysterious and absolutely paradoxical club" -- provides the perfect companion to De Sade's sensualist prose...
...title of Sennett's book belies the breadth and scope of its arguments. This is not just a work on architecture or urban history, although it makes extensive use of both. It is, rather, a breathless, engaging romp through the alleyways and avenues of Western civilization. The route it takes is determined not by chronology, not by geography, but by the enthusiasms of the author's intellectual imagination...
...banal and what is distinctive in her findings and her arguments. There are also problems that undermine reader confidence. Early on Sheehy writes, "Did Gorbachev change the world or did the world change him? I took as my premise the second interpretation." So how come the title of her breathless book is The Man Who Changed the World...