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...novel's title is a clever allusion to Diderot's Rameau's Nephew. Its structure, while not entirely original, is ambitious. Reminiscent of Antonia Byatt's Possession, it uses the same conceit of imposing a fictional historical text upon the lives of contemporary characters and concocting a story to fill in the interstices...
...This war is needed by no one, but we are not clever enough to stop it," he admits. "But Serbs cannot be separated. History has told us we must be united for our survival. To be divided is to die. The world cannot deny that is the historical truth. We have the right to decide who lives with us. This is a very personal war. It will decide who I shall live with, and we can never live with the Muslims again. I do not mind spending the rest of my life in the trenches if it will finally settle...
Selma, a big Paul Rudnick fan who has seen Jeffrey three times -- "Is that more than David Mamet's mother saw Oleanna, do you suppose?" -- recalls that her son was a clever child. "But he was not the Paul we see today," she says, "because parents don't really see that. A parent is always trying to get a child to do what he doesn't want to do. And Paul's response to this was, 'No, I won't clean up my room.' At the time, I didn't find that particularly witty...
...course, there's a catch. No way could Citibank actually offer you double the stock-market return with no risk, though its ad and brochure make every attempt to convey that impression. But it's entirely legal, fiendishly clever (in a friendly, relatively harmless sort of way) and just one of the many things to be wary of as we desperately reach for alternatives to the 2.5% they're offering down at the local money-market fund...
...things like "wicked awesome" and of a lame reference to Oprah will indicate the level of wit the show aspires to. There a few redeeming moments: the entrance of the Plaza-Toros is well staged and choreographer Susanna Witt's staging of the blind man's bluff dance is clever. Overall, however, the actors succeed by overcoming the direction, not because...