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...premise of this would-be son of Forrest Gump is an idealistic Ponzi scheme. The receiver of a good deed must do good deeds for three other people. They, in turn, must benefit a total of nine. Before long, millions are doing unto others, assuming Saddam Hussein and his like are kept out of the loop. It's an appealing idea but--sorry to be a meanie--seriously stunted. Hyde tells far more than she shows. A plodding love affair, tinny dialogue and awkward symbolism don't help. It's as if the novelist had ceded her imagination...
...deed on the white, clapboard-and-brick house at 41 Armour Rd. was recorded on August...
...writing Ripley, Highsmith had two bolts of brilliance. The first was to let the bad guy get away with his crimes. All mystery writers are murderers; they get into the mind, under the skin, of a killer, if only to determine how the foul deed can be accomplished. Then, typically, they bring in a detective to unravel the plot and cuff the culprit. Highsmith simply ditched the civilized pretense of justice avenged. She tore the final, comeuppance chapter out of Ripley's story, left him giddy with triumph--and let him flourish in four more books. The snake, having shed...
...deed of gift, the Turkish government specified the conditions of its $750,000 donation, which was matched by private donors. The professor should have "a direct knowledge of Turkey and Turkish studies and whose published works are based on extensive utilizations of archives and libraries in Turkey," says the document, as quoted in the Daily Princetonian...
...spills and splatters, vandalism, and even a physical tear from an ill-placed chair. The Fogg Museum, aware of the damage, made numerous attempts to bring about the murals' removal and preservation. But to no avail, as the murals belonged to the Corporation, which itself was held under the Deed of Gift not to move the murals without the artist's consent. Th final difficulty was Rothko's death in 1970, which lead to a legal entanglement over his estate that would delay the murals' removal for nine more years...