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...Marc Anthony Contra la Corriente (RMM) In this collection, rising Latin star Anthony sings salsa with youthful vigor and old-school showmanship. His voice is a flash of gold, blinding and enticing in its purity. The songs are in Spanish, but whether you habla espanol or not, Anthony's talent comes through, no translation needed...
Highly specific in its substance yet encompassing in its vision, Serge Schmemann's new book, Echoes of a Native Land: Two Centuries of a Russian Village, is like a flash of light. It captures in an instant a jumbled collection of details in the past of a village, then slowly-fades--leaving as a general impression a sense of the history and of the prospects of Russia as a whole...
Fearing that the electrical system had gotten wet, Taylor and the other conservationists had to work by flash-light rather than risk electric shock, Taylor said...
...News flash--the law of gravity does apply in Asia. For the past decade or two, Japan and then a succession of its East Asian neighbors had us convinced that they were exempt from conventional economic constraints. The proof: year after year of high growth with minimal inflation. Contravening all known wisdom of economic management, they did it with lots of direction from government bureaucrats--who regularly outguessed the markets in developing efficient industries. The dawn of an Asian Century was upon us, and pundits struggled to explain this miracle...
...making three movies in a row for all this money... I'm not complaining, you know. But I mean, why is it all happening to me? And if people are expecting this much, will they be mad if I let them down? I don't want to be a flash in the pan. I don't want to lose...