Word: flawlessness
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...that thought doesn't come until the end of this odd page-turner, when Noriko has been effectively brainwashed. In the meantime there are plenty of exquisitely perverse intimations and hard evidences rolled out to rebut it. The flawless family portrait starts to crack after Noriko, while on a brief visit back home to visit her parents, sees a TV news report about the death by home gas explosion of a raspy old ice vendor and his family - tenants of the Shitos, who happen to own and lease several residential properties. Murder-suicide, the police conclude. But an overheard midnight...
...tendencies, and still drag a story out of it—though, at times, Kennedy exposes her narrative manipulations, clustering beloved ones’ deaths suspiciously close together or violating the mind’s logic by planting too-linear sequences of thought in Day’s brain.Virtually flawless, however, is Kennedy’s rich language and the even richer character who takes life from it. Kennedy writes like a smoother T.C. Boyle, her Britishisms landing softer on the ear than the American slang Boyle bandies about. She has his wit, his lyrical vision, and his ability...
...Magnetic Fields, the main musical vehicle for crooning NYC songwriter Stephen Merritt, without mentioning their calling card, 1999’s staggering “69 Love Songs.” With that album, Merritt gave birth to a project that so perfectly matched its ambitions, both through its flawless melodies and its irresistible sense of irony, that every work of his before or since has fallen in its shadow. Naturally, and perhaps intentionally, 2004’s “i” disappointed, with its tacked-on concept and lack of consistently interesting material. Now, the Fields return...
Over the past century, Missouri has proved a nearly flawless barometer of presidential elections. So it was only fitting in this year's muddled nomination races that both its Democratic and Republican races on Super Tuesday were two of the tightest in the nation, with Barack Obama and John McCain winning their respective contests by the slightest of margins...
...article predicting a tough week ahead for Sarkozy's reform program, over which trade unions are planning mass strikes. The President's happier news lay tucked inside the "France Politique" section, where one half-page showed three more images of Bruni, 39, including one of her without trousers, her flawless bare legs crossed on a couch next to her acoustic guitar. Although the Elysée Palace has refused to comment on the reports, three national magazine covers will feature the new couple this week, according to the newspaper...