Word: deadly
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...With the death of their boss, and 38 days left in their rotation, the two survivors - Sgt. J.T. "Bomber Mike" Sanborn (Anthony Mackie) and Specialist Owen Eldridge (Brian Geraghty) get a new guy, Staff Sgt. William James (Jeremy Renner), who lacks the dead man's leadership skills or his bluff camaraderie. James doesn't say much, just does his own thing, which is to keep little pieces of Baghdad from blowing...
Sittenfeld's first novel, Prep, was distinguished by the dead-on observations of upper-class life by a working-class narrator - a narrator, one imagines, not unlike Sittenfeld herself, who was jolted from Cincinnati to the rarefied precincts of the Groton School in Massachusetts. There is a similar class consciousness in American Wife, especially in the luscious passages in which Alice describes her first encounters with the Blackwell family at its summer estate, Halcyon, on Lake Michigan. The Blackwells are overwhelming, especially the materfamilias, known as Maj (short for "Her Majesty"). They are classic inbred Wasps, fetishizers of the threadbare...
...case, a tornado spinning too fast to be comprehensible - Charlie for President? Charlie as President? Charlie as the ultimate arbiter of war and peace? Indeed, Alice belatedly finds herself facing a moral dilemma: Was it possible that the disaster of Charlie's presidency - the war, the thousands dead - was her fault, just as the long-ago auto accident had been? Was she, having forced Charlie to sober up and get his act together, responsible for giving the nation this charming but limited man as its President? She is boggled by the simultaneous intimacy and superficiality of public life - that...
...after Hurricane Gustav battered this coastal region, along Highway 57 from Houma, cars dodged downed power lines, felled oak trees, and an occasional dead turtle. "You LOOT, we SHOOT," read one wooden sign that'd been attached to one home's front door. Du Lac, not far from Cocodrie where Gustav made landfall, is so sparse it doesn't feel like much of a town. It's a set of trailers and single-level homes, often built on stilts, some rising some 10, 20, even 30 feet into the air above marshes...
...dragging on his ambitions, an unpopular president mired in the polls and tangled in a troubled economy. It's nothing personal, but when a sailor - or politician - has exhausted all other strategies for hoisting the dead weight, he has no choice but to cut it loose...