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...Twenty pages into the novel, the reader cottons on to the fact that this is a darkly bizarre fantasy world that bears superficial resemblance to the real one but obeys few of its laws. The book's strangest quality is that it has only the faintest tint or scent of India. Except for proper names, the book's vernacular and cultural references are almost entirely American, and impressively authentic at that. The hard-boiled dialogue is straight out of classic Hollywood, a tongue-in-cheek tribute to the Anglo-American spy spoof. If Bond and Matt Helm outrageously flout social...
Melodious, amiable and undeniably sexy, Angelina Jolie’s gliding voice is as complex as the woman herself. With the faintest hint of a British accent occasionally peeking out in her words, it’s easy to regard Jolie as the real-life personification of Lara Croft, the British video game vixen from Tomb Raider...
...knowing that "they could get to the top by killing him." According to another biographer, London professor Efraim Karsh, Saddam once told a visitor he could see betrayal in a man's eyes before the man had planned anything. "This enables me to get them before they have the faintest chance of striking at me," Saddam reportedly said. Bush himself has recently been watching a notorious videotape made in 1979 that suggests Saddam personally orchestrated the execution en masse of close party colleagues who had just helped him into the presidency. Ever suspicious of rivals, he filled key posts...
...fast becoming a happening capital. So is it? Simply, no. The bitter truth is that the only place ever to have known a paparazzi stakeout is T.G.I. Friday's. But whereas five years ago New Delhi was dead, now, on the right night, it is possible to detect the faintest cosmopolitan pulse...
...metaphor, but he seems to believe that 70 is deadly all the time and 65 is never much better. It may prove to be a warning shot in a more pivotal battle over the definition of responsible drinking, and we are disturbed that Lewis hasn’t the faintest understanding of where we are coming from...