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...nurse in a London hospital during the Second World War. In 2001 McEwan published his novel Atonement, the heroine of which also spends some time as a nurse during the war. There are some inevitable similarities in their stories. There are also a few sentences in Atonement that echo No Time for Romance a bit too closely...
...gangland-style slaying of Lebanese cabinet minister Pierre Gemayel this week is an echo of Lebanon's tragic past. It may also be a glimpse into a future Middle East that looks increasingly troubled...
...what amounts to an experiment with the boundaries of pop music, Newsom’s unparalleled complexity and imagination serve to weed out the casual or unadventurous while rewarding the faithful; a close parallel would be Captain Beefheart. Indeed, her virtuosic musical composition and her way with words echo that prog-rock godfather, whose songs were similarly otherworldly. Newsom, whose similarity to Björk was hard to ignore on her debut, now seems to channel a world even further afield. Similarly elfin in appearance, Newsom echoes both the futuristic and the ancient at once, her willingness to look backwards...
...elicit a bubble of giggly Beatlemania; I heard a visiting VIP yelp, "Omigod, I just saw Tony Snow!" His fame--invariably, his colleagues describe him as a "rock star"--has unavoidably changed the very nature of the job. He is more than a mouthpiece; he's a one-man echo chamber, able to riff on the themes of the Bush presidency with a wide smile and a word-a-day-calendar vocabulary. His flamboyant style has drawn the media spotlight just a little off center, away from the President. And these days, the White House doesn't mind...
...ever seen big cats at a zoo, this is what they do as well. They pace back and forth, rhythmically, like a pendulum. Across the yard, this is what one sees: seven pairs of inmates pacing together, all the while yelling in loud Arabic." The words Aiwa, aiwa echo across the yard...