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...novel, Theft: A Love Story (Knopf; 269 pages), Carey shifts his magpie gaze to an art world overflowing with unscrupulous dealers, avaricious collectors and modernist forgeries, but his question is essentially the same. Ponders has-been Australian artist Michael Boone: "How can you know how much to pay when you have no bloody idea of what it's worth?" As Boone hails from Bacchus Marsh, Carey's birthplace, and finds himself at art's '80s epicenter in Manhattan, where the novelist has lived for nearly two decades, the question of creative worth would seem to resonate strongly with the Booker...
...years I lived in Washington, I was "the wife." My husband was an editor at the Washington Post, but my career lottery number had yet to come up. Tagging along in the modest swirl of D.C. cocktail parties, I was the half of the couple who watched people's gaze drift during conversation as they searched the room for someone a little more plugged in. No one remembered my name or asked for my card or paid for my lunch. I was unexpensable. My husband twice received handsome engraved invitations to presidential dinners. For those events and many others...
...other members of System of a Down on the bus with him to keep him company. In the video for “Lonely Day,” the band members lounge mournfully around their tour bus, fiddling with a cunningly-product-placed iPod, playing chess, and gazing out the windows. They don’t seem terribly lonely, but they do seem rather bored. Why they thought people would be entertained by watching the band travel by luxury bus is hard to say. As if to compensate for the dullness of the band’s scenes, they alternate...
...glass of ginger tea and a ginger candy to purify the body and boost energy levels, before being led to the sauna?the best seat in the house. With one wall entirely made of glass, the women's sauna overlooks a magnificent panorama of the Mediterranean, while men can gaze at the buzzing Catalan city below and the Collserola hills to the north...
...wedding to her dashing best mate Heck (Matthew Goode “Match Point”). As she walks down the aisle she notices a comely mystery woman. Time pauses (like it always does in the movies when two star-crossed lovers meet) as the two women gaze at one another. Ah, love at first sight. The other woman is Luce (Lena Headey “The Brothers Grimm)), a happy-go-lucky florist with exquisitely well-defined cheekbones and glorious auburn tresses. Of course, Rachel is now a married woman torn between leaving the man who has stood...