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...boycott. I could cancel the trip, but what good would that do? I could go, but would that do any good either? That led to the question of how any of us can make a difference. And how do we decide?" That led to Saving Fish from Drowning, the latest and most radically un-Tanlike of Tan's novels. Instead of examining personal relationships, this time she takes on two of the more pressing moral issues of the age: how to do good in the world and whether it matters. Her previous novels - The Joy Luck Club (she also...
...picnic. I have seizures. I have a sleep disorder. But I'm so much happier now. I'm so grateful for what I have. I can walk. I see things I don't want to take for granted ever again. I try to do more in life." Saving Fish is one result of Tan's new energy, and the next is an opera based on The Bonesetter's Daughter. Her collaborators are librettist Michael Korie and composer Stuart Wallace, whose 1995 opera Harvey Milk, about the assassination of San Francisco's first gay city supervisor, won wide acclaim. They...
Then there are advertisers, whose blessed ministrations have made game shows and fish-out-of-water sitcoms free as air for generations of Americans. A future audience willing to buy its way out of commercials is an audience that could go tragically unaware of new KFC menu items. So we may see more product placement--not a case of Coca-Cola washing up on the island in Lost, but more seamless "embedding," such as when media buyer Magna Global Entertainment helped produce the Bravo reality show Blow Out, about a beauty salon, to get clients' products on the show. "There...
...wonder Van Dyke isn't getting out. "People say, Van Dyke, why in the hell don't you retire?" he says. "Well, hell, I don't hunt and fish. I don't play golf. My wife won't let me chase girls, so what else is there?" And like any other great oilman, he's still got big dreams. "I'm taking all the properties we have in West Africa, going to make a great big sale, probably to the Chinese, the Indians, going to keep about a 15% interest." A deal like that could make him a billionaire...
...couldn't shake dishes of gluey paella, watery gazpacho, oversalted cod and lamb scraps advertised as cutlet. In Madrid, where Moroccan food is in vogue, we ordered a salad at a trendy place called Mosaiq and received taco filling. A dollop of wasabi next to a greasy piece of fish was the chef's idea of fusion...