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...lies, please" was Greene's injunction to his shadow, and Sherry seems to have heeded the challenge. Instead of lies, he gives us antic speculation, reductive lay psychology and endless chatty asides. Greene evaded his pursuers in part by always being on the move--directing a brewery, bombarding Bodley Head publishers with new discoveries, roaming the world ceaselessly and maintaining a private life that quickened and deepened his heartbreaking novels. At one point we find him writing hundreds of letters to his longtime mistress Catherine Walston, visiting another mistress in Stockholm and, while roaming from Martinique to Moscow, crafting...
...crew did nothing to alter the physical space of the theatre except taking down a wall. There is a minute-long shot of the empty theatre at the end of film, when the few members of the audience had filed out, with only the endless blue rows of seats. In the absence of dialogue, speech and plot, the physical space of the theatre emerges as a desolate presence...
...series of crises was about to hit Africa and India; then in the 1980s and '90s he saw that trouble was brewing in the Islamic world. Naipaul's journalism of crisis was engaged most profoundly with India. On his first visit there, in 1962, Naipaul found the country "an endless repetition of exhaustion and decay." When he came back to India in 1967, he wrote: "The absurdity of India can be total." India, he said, had borrowed words like "democracy" and "science" from the West, but Indians were miming these words without knowing what they meant. In 1975 he visited...
...study of rain and rivers." Rain and rivers--why not? For his hyperkinetic, endearing, exasperating 1957 novel, Kerouac tried to admit whole worlds. An account of a few pinwheeling characters in perpetual cross-country motion, it had room to spare for rivers, landscapes, starry skies, Benzedrine addicts, endless marathons of driving and lots of fast-talking madmen. "Because the only people for me are the mad ones," Kerouac's narrator, Sal Paradise, tells us. "The ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved...
...iPod Politics," about Americans' ability to fashion their own insular world, was right on target [Sept. 27]. With the smorgasbord of available media coverage of presidential politics, we can see to it that even the news can be personalized to jibe with our own particular reality. America's endless supply of niche media outlets has given us the option of selecting a news source that suits our specific political ideology, leaving us with a narrower perspective and a brazen contempt for opposing viewpoints. Individualism and dissent are the lifeblood of our democracy. We have to remember, however, that...