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...known of America's straight-up fantasy writers. That honor would probably go to upstart Christopher Paolini (Eragon), or Robert Jordan (the endlessly turning Wheel of Time series), or better yet to ageless grandmistress Ursula K. LeGuin (A Wizard of Earthsea). But of those who work in the grand epic-fantasy tradition, Martin is by far the best. In fact, with his newest book, A Feast for Crows (Bantam; 784 pages), currently descending on bookstores and ascending best-seller lists, this is as good a time as any to proclaim him the American Tolkien...
...only nationwide ice cream chain with a socially conscious mission statement gives the celebrant a free small cone of any of its large assortment of flavors, from the vintage Cherry Garcia (cherry ice cream with cherries and fudge flakes) to the epic Gobfather (chocolate ice cream with fudge covered almonds and a nougat swirl). No free hippies included...
...devilish and dirty/ They say you're pushing 30"), but one senses that the Darkness, which is about as dark as Richard Simmons and just as partial to spandex, could turn around and top it. The band is proud of its bad jokes, virtuoso guitar playing and the epic British shriek of singer Justin Hawkins, and with songs like Bald, the greatest track ever written about the scourge of male pattern baldness, it deserves...
...brawl in Washington needs at least one good villain. It's not nearly as much fun or as easy to score points and hurl invective back and forth without a compelling one-dimensional character at the center of it all. Robert Bork played that role magnificently in his 1987 epic Supreme Court battle, as did Clarence Thomas in his more understated performance four years later. More recently, during the bloody conservative revolt over the Supreme Court nomination of White House counsel Harriet Miers, the real villain turned out to be her chief backer, a President who dared tell his loyal...