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...keeping with Scandinavian tradition. Domestic violence is a central theme in Silence of the Grave, which won a British Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger award in 2005. Arctic Chill explores the tensions caused by a recent influx of immigrants to Iceland. But Indridason tempers the sociology with a big dollop of old-fashioned suspense. He's a fan of Alfred Hitchcock, and takes pains to entice his readers with an intriguing first chapter. Hitchcock would probably have relished the first scene of Silence of the Grave: a baby at a birthday party quietly chewing on a bone that turns...
...probing questions, that Obama seemed to be filming a future episode of The West Wing in the background: smiling genuinely and looking with a true statesman’s curiosity at his rival. You half-expected the Democrat to start juggling chairs or audience members while the dollop of cottage cheese from Sedona stumbled through “Ahmadinejad...
...Easy This is a toxic time to kvetch. There are easy babies and cranky babies, and you know which one you are. "Does your commute suck? Too bad," says Viscusi with a big dollop of tough love. "Is your cubicle too small? Don't want to hear...
...issue? Contemporary manifestations of the East in Western culture seem only questionably problematic. Gone are the days of heavy-handed imperialism, replaced in fact by an often sterile and over-politically correct culture of zero assumptions. Due respect is paid in the arts as well, often accompanied with a dollop of irony, and protest seems to be founded more on paranoia than due cause.The mixed reception of “The Mikado” has everything to do with its audience. I suspect that this play has met with no opposition here because audiences come to the show with enough...
...thoughts. And when they do, they invariably add ever pricier accouterments. The company says customers change their orders more than 1 million times a year. BMW doesn't break out details of the additional revenue, but given the profit margins on many add-ons, "it's like a big dollop of cream on the cake," says Peter Schmidt, a British-based auto-industry consultant...