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...This dilemma is typical of Amis' writing. As in London Fields, the details in The Information are often brilliantly rendered, but the big picture doesn't quite add up. Still, Amis' ability to transform the mundane into the morbidly funny makes the novel worth reading. The passages describing Richard are gems...
Thank you thank you thank you thank you, you're the best! Last week I read your recipe for dream decision-making as I was grappling with the dilemma of whom to beg to be my date for the formal this Saturday. As I was smoking the Camel Unfiltered cigarette in the light of the moon, a Harvard police officer chanced by and noticed my unsteadiness, caused partly by the peach schnapps, which was more than I could handle, and partly by my crazy nicotine buzz. I was Ad-Boarded for under-age drinking, and the permanent blemish...
That proposal created an immediate dilemma for the publications: Should they publish the material and possibly save lives or refuse to surrender their pages to a terrorist? Both Newsweek and TIME declined to say what they might do, and Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. released a noncommittal statement. "We'll take a careful look at it," he said, "and make a journalistic decision about whether to publish it in our pages." Bob Guccione, publisher of Penthouse, OMNI and other magazines, had no such hesitation. "I would do it in an instant," he said, offering not only to print the manuscript...
...poetry written by Josa Mart?: "Dos patrias tengo yo: Cuba y la noche" (Two fatherlands have I: Cuba and the night). The implication being, and it is one the novel endorses, that when the sun goes down, principles crumble away, loyalties falter, certainties dissolve. The dichotomy and the dilemma are all the stronger, one imagines, if you are not a Cuban. Iyer, who occasionally writes essays for Time, conjures up Cuba as a kind of permanent night; for the foreign visitor it is enough merely to set foot in the country to experience that sense of dissociation, that loss...
Translating from an interview conducted in Greek, she quoted the woman's description of her dilemma...