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...revolutionaries of the Khmer Rouge. Gray's attempt to deal wryly with themes on this scale finally fails. His is a dispassionate sensibility, and he is not a strong enough actor -- nor has he a strong enough intelligence -- to fight his way out of the false analogy he has drawn between moviemaking and tragic history in the making. --By Richard Schickel...
...desert. Until this point, Slow Man (Knopf; 265 pages) has been about the unraveling of retired photographer Paul Rayment in Adelaide. After his bicycle is clipped by a car, he loses first his leg, then his dignity and, perhaps, his mind. Dour of disposition and without family, he's drawn to his hot-blooded Croatian nurse, Marijana Jokic, whose troublesome brood he offers to support. At which point "the unattractively freckled, somewhat fleshy shoulders" of Elizabeth Costello appear up his stairs. Is she an authorial intervention? A meddling cupid? A cynic about his real intentions with the Jokics, whom...
...take a bottle of milk from a store when your baby was sobbing and there was no way to pay for it if you tried? When cans of food are scattered in the debris, does taking them amount to theft, or salvage? At one point, police with guns drawn escorted Dr. Henderson through a Walgreens as he emptied the pharmacy of drugs to use in a French Quarter bar turned makeshift clinic. Dudley Fuqua, tall and lean in baggy blue shorts, broke into neighborhood shops and took canned goods, frozen chicken and ribs and cigarettes to his neighbors, who called...
...Sharon is now talking about more West Bank settlements being evacuated - even mentioning "final status" talks with the Palestinians. Is he anticipating renewed talks any time soon, or planning to take new unilateral steps towards his own idea of where final boundaries between Israel and the Palestinians should be drawn...
...sharp global slowdown?and possibly a recession?sparked by rising oil prices. U.S. consumer spending is likely to slow markedly if oil prices just stay at about $60 a barrel. This is true for several reasons. First, U.S. households have precious little flexibility in their budgets. They have drawn their personal average savings rate down to zero?far below the 9.5% average during the two oil shocks of the 1970s and the 7% rate during the shock just prior to the Gulf War in 1991. Today, the only backstop for most consumers is the transitory wealth created by America...