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...lite Beverly Hills dating service"--actually located in Tarzana, Calif.--that is staffed by a neurotic crew of "relationship consultants." Cast with versatile veterans of improv shows like Reno 911!, Lovespring also features a daffy string of customers both demanding (a woman offers $10,000 to have her dog deflowered) and satisfied ("He learned some things in prison that really make me happy"). The concept has been tried unsuccessfully before (e.g., UPN's Love Inc. last season), but this loose, wry sitcom makes a crackling love connection...
...year-old Miriam alone in Nazi-occupied Budapest while her husband fights in the Hungarian army. The book opens with the urbane and middle class Esther sharing coffee with her best friend, discussing how the Nazi death trap was closing in. "I received an order to hand over the dog today," she says, as Miriam feeds ice cream to little Rexy. First denied their pets, the Jews of Budapest are soon commanded to leave behind all their possessions and report to the ghetto. Hearing rumors of round-ups from which no one returns, Esther buys fake papers that identify...
...Esther fleeing into a snowstorm, pulling Miriam behind in an open suitcase. This intense sequence becomes the book's dramatic and thematic climax. While some may see the hand of a benevolent God in sending the snows and a shelter to protect them, for Miriam the site of a dog shot by the soldiers brings her to a different conclusion...
...warrior on the corporate battlefield--until he meets Kurt Semko, a former special-forces officer who did a stint in Iraq. "He's everything Gordy [his boss] and all these other phony tough guys pretend to be," Steadman thinks. "Sitting in their Aeron chairs and talking about 'dog eat dog' and 'killing the competition.' Only he's for real. He's actually killed people." Semko's swagger leads Steadman into an increasingly unethical and dangerous ascent on the corporate ladder. It's a deal with the devil, as Steadman learns...
...blogging event in Vancouver last year. And not necessarily by choice. "[Bloggers] who are in the long tail would probably rather not be part of it," he said. "They simply want to be read." As an earlier catchphrase put it, if the tail were smarter, it would wag the dog...