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...neckties - bristles with sharp observations. Avuncular he may seem, but this famous European intellectual has not mellowed with age. Age, memory and nostalgia are, however, the central themes of Queen Loana, Eco's fifth novel, just published in English translation. Struck by amnesia, the narrator, an antiquarian book dealer, begins to dig through the paper trail of his early life in an attempt to kick-start his memory. The novel itself is illustrated with images from comics and children's books that may or may not be clues to the narrator's sequestered identity. For Eco, of course, everything...
Back on the job in Bradford, Chambliss says he notices a change in himself. Driving through town in his police cruiser, he describes the arrest a day earlier of a suspected meth dealer. "I knocked on the front door and got him coming out the back, but I realized I had my hand on my gun and was fixin' to draw down on him," says Chambliss. His deputy stopped him, but his eagerness to pull a gun shook him. It still does...
...like nearly any other career politician, Villaraigosa comes with baggage: he lost the 2001 mayoral election after it was revealed he had written the Clinton White House seeking a pardon for a convicted cocaine dealer, whose father had requested Villaraigosa's help. In this year's campaign he returned $47,000 in questionable donations from employees--and their relatives--of two Florida companies with direct and indirect interests in shops at Los Angeles International Airport...
Layer Cake features, yes, an antihero with no name and no backstory. He's simply called XXXX in the credits, and he's played by a gelid Daniel Craig. He is a) a drug dealer and b) a man who, having made his pile, wishes to abandon his life of crime and start hanging about at posh country clubs. But prosperous as he is, he is still only middle management in the criminal pastry shop. He has obligations to his masters, chief of which is to help them recover a vast shipment of ecstasy pills that have gone missing somewhere...
Only three actors make up the cast: Mike G. Jordan ’08 plays Dennis, a manipulative drug-dealer; Daniel R. Peccia ‘08-’09 is Warren, Dennis’s doormat friend who comes into his own as the play progresses; and Andrea M. Spillman ’07, who dresses in pink spandex to play Jessica, the young woman Warren falls for. Although the three are on stage all together only once, their tangible chemistry supports the action at all times...