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...have nightmares that my wife will go into labor five minutes before my debut...
...name was Salmon, like the fish: first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973." Go ahead, read it again. Almost everything that makes The Lovely Bones the breakout fiction debut of the year--the sweetness, the humor, the kicky rhythm, the deadpan suburban gothic--is right there, packed into those first two lines, under pressure and waiting to explode...
...formula works. Papa Roach sold 3 million copies of its tortured debut album, Infest, and in this follow-up the band is going right back to the well. It's not worth debating whether Shaddix's scars are real. The point is he believes he has them. On Black Clouds he screams, "Confession of depression/This life I'm second-guessing/Like ashes to ashes/I always seem to fall down." On She Loves Me Not he decides that "I'm the jerk." Subtlety is not his forte, and numbness takes over after a few lovehatetragedy tracks. It's a shame, because...
...Eventually Hollywood paged her. For her debut, as a pearl-diver in "Boy on a Dolphin," she emerged from the sea in a clinging outfit that, when I was about 12, instantly induced puberty. But Loren had the whole package: swan neck, laughing voice, a poise and perfect posture rare among tall women and, not least, the gift to inhabit any role, serious or silly, as if she'd been born there. For me, Loren was Italian cinema incarnate - until Claudia Cardinale came along, and then Stefania Sandrelli. The Italian-actress assembly line just kept producing masterpieces...
...Japan, its neighbor, and the U.S., its oft-contentious ally. Officials plugged Korea as Asia's most wired nation, and touted the country's capital as being as hip and caffeinated as any modern metropolis. Said bleached-haired midfielder Kim Nam Il on the eve of Korea's 2002 debut: "We want to show we are a team?and a nation?that can compete with the best...