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...husband, who looks for God between the bruises (The Turning). And teen tomboy Agnes, who spends her evenings wading the shallows for catfish after her drunken father is laid off from the local meatworks (Cockleshell). But most of all there's policeman's son Vic, who helps his mother clean rich people's houses after his dad leaves them, and later becomes a disenchanted lawyer. "In the end there was only a closed-down resignation," Vic says in Commission, "the adult making-do that I'd grown into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fate and the Little Guy | 10/14/2004 | See Source »

...Like Vic, Winton was born in 1960, a policeman's son who moved from Perth to the south coast as a boy. Unlike Vic, the author hasn't much to be disappointed by. With a cabinet of literary trophies for his clean, muscular prose (Nicole Kidman is negotiating to star in an adaptation of his 2002 Miles Franklin Award?winning Dirt Music), this former small-town boy is the ultimate sea-changer. Yet in The Turning, Winton presides as the deity of disappointment - from the opening lines of the first story, Big World, where two beachcombing mates graduate from high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fate and the Little Guy | 10/14/2004 | See Source »

...next day, Rush Limbaugh (that paragon of clean living) told his twenty million listeners that “the thing to note is that Kerry got a manicure yesterday. John Kerry got a coiffure and a manicure and went out and got primped … while Bush was out there touring these devastated areas of Florida...

Author: By Brian M. Goldsmith, | Title: All the President's Manicures | 10/14/2004 | See Source »

Having already been beaten in three sports on Saturday, the Cornell men’s soccer team seemed determined to ensure a clean sweep for Harvard if the Crimson wasn’t up to the task, accounting for two own-goals and an assist on a third in Harvard?...

Author: By Abigail M. Baird, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cornell Helps M. Soccer to Victory | 10/12/2004 | See Source »

...measure of the looking-glass standards that have come to be applied in this increasingly makeshift war, Iraqi Interior Minister Falah al-Naqib told a press conference on Saturday that the battle for Samarra had been a "very clean" operation. That may be, but if so, American planners won't want to see messy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA | 10/11/2004 | See Source »

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