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...made sense." Waters maintains her trademark plot-twisting - the full connections between some of the characters aren't revealed until the reader meets them in 1941 - and her attention to detail. She focuses on seemingly ordinary things that were luxuries at the time - a birthday orange, tins of meat, gin gimlets - to bring home a sense of the austerity of the period and the extraordinary situations Londoners found themselves in. Her meticulous revivals range from the mundane ("Their stockings were darned at the toes and heels. Their shoes were scuffed; everybody's were") to the shocking ("What amazed...
...their stiff-upper-lip stoicism, the British go cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs over any native band that can gin up three chords and an attitude. The latest kings of England are the Arctic Monkeys, four lads who got guitars for Christmas in 2001, mastered them quickly, toured the country and handed out home-burned CDs of songs that were then uploaded to the unsigned-band portal MySpace.com Their following metastasized to the point that the band sold out the famed London Astoria last year on word of mouth. When a record-company bidding war ensued, the Arctic Monkeys signed with...
...problem child to biblical prophet, and the whole gang learns Christmas is about decorating puny trees. If you need to keep your annoying cousins company after Christmas dinner, plop them in front of the TV, pop this into the DVD player, and break the seal on a bottle of gin. TAKE A SHOT… 1. Every time Linus does something vaguely biblical—throwing his snowball with a slingshot a la David, being offered Sally as his wife in the Christmas play, delivering the word of the Lord, etc. 2. Every time Charlie Brown says something suggesting he?...
...pride as much as embarrassment--falling somewhere between bland cuisine and stiff upper lips on the list of distinguishing national characteristics. But these days, that excess isn't so endearing as levels of concern about boozing have reached heights not seen since Victorians decried the evils of cheap gin. Unlike most of their Continental counterparts, whose consumption is falling, the British are drinking more than ever--9.6 L of pure alcohol per person last year, which is 42% more than the amount consumed per American. Binge drinking, defined as putting away the equivalent of a whole bottle of wine...
...crop. Dahlstrom, like many other indigenous people, has relied on this work for extra pre-Christmas cash. He's traveled the country as a fruit picker, where his blue eyes and fair hair left him indistinguishable from the Scandinavian backpackers he befriended. Until recently, Dahlstrom worked on a cotton gin a few hours away near the Queensland border. The money was terrific, but the 12-hour shifts and living away from his young family were too much to bear. Like so many others, he's found his way back to Moree - whose grains, oil seeds and cotton can be worth...