Word: gist
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...Sleep, There Are Snakes Daniel L. Everett Pantheon Books; 283 pages The Gist...
...Gist:A film critic at TIME for decades, Kanfer delivers another in a long line of Marlon Brando biographies (including 1999's Brando, by Richard Schickel, another TIME critic). Looking particularly closely at the actor's self-destructive tendencies, Somebody take the Brando myth up to his 2004 death and beyond...
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...Gist:Barlow is not a half-assed carnivore. An expatriate Brit who relocated to the Galician town of his Spaniard wife, he launches himself on a foolhardy mission: travel around northwest Spain and eat as much pig as possible. Snout, marrow, heart, bladder, head-all of it. Along the way, he tells the tale of Galicia, a cold, rainy, and stubbornly independent piece of Spain on the Atlantic Ocean. It is "a patchwork of small, low-intensity farms...real working countryside" and home to Don Quixote's Miguel de Cervantes, longtime Spanish dictator General Francisco Franco, and the Castro family...
...enough beer, hit the nearest metal shop. Now take all your empty cans and weld them together into weapons and suits of armor. How much cooler is that idea than recycling, or even—dare I say it—commingled recycling? This seems to be the gist of “Prehistoric Dog,” at least until around the mid-way point, when the guys in Red Fang suit up to do battle with their nemeses, a group of non-beer-drinking, role-playing geeks (who seem to be involved in a real life version...