Word: dose
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...saris on the cover of Bharati Mukherjee’s Desirable Daughters and enter an unknown world. The book is packaged like so many other novels by Indian and Indian-American authors. It masquerades as another example of literary “chutneyfication,” an unthreatening dose of the exotic for the American reading palate. But this Berkeley professor’s latest novel is anything but a typical tale of immigration. Only its costume evokes the popular success of that genre...
...rock radio blend of melodic hooks and crunching riffs. This nu-metal outfit manages to temper the simplicity of drop-d tuned chunk metal with alt-rock and cock-rock attitude. The band keeps it simple. They don’t blend hip-hop, they don’t dose tracks with techno-loops, but stick to simple meat and potatoes rock-metal power, with an occasional decrease in distortion for a few seconds of sensitivity. Catapulted by their debut single, “Halo,” the band is threatening to leave behind their Ozzfest second-stage brethren...
...comedy full of screwball personalities, Holmgren’s Mortimer provides a refreshing dose of sanity as the apparent straight-man. By the end of the show, however, he is as neurotic as anybody else on stage...
...tell you that you can’t criticize their country without being their enemy suffer from delusional paranoia. People who tell you that you can’t criticize your own country and be patriotic at the same time are0 living in an Orwellian nightmare. A good dose of constructive criticism never hurt anybody. In fact, it usually helps...
...doings of Cheney's gang. But Cheney and Bush are clutching to each Post-it note, insisting that Vice Presidents (and Presidents) should be allowed to get unvarnished advice without the pesky public or Congress knowing who is giving it. Defending that principle has meant coping with a daily dose of unpleasant stories pointing out that those given access to Cheney's office were the same energy-company executives who crowd the candlelit tables at high-dollar G.O.P. fund-raising dinners. Some members of the President's staff have argued in favor of disclosure, but Bush and Cheney will...