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...story calls for; she is simply petulant and whiny, cajoling the reader for desiring a resolution that he shouldn’t even want or need. The book would be better if Phillips had cut out the last section and left the novel as a phantasm, a hauntress, a gleam of something mysterious, intriguing, and not so finally resolved and inarticulate. The meat of the novel has momentum, has life and potential to be what it can be: haunting and thought-provoking. But the ending is fumbling, unappealing, as Phillips summarizes every potential cause for the events that occurred, explicates...
...Texas' 22nd Congressional district may be as flat as the rice fields that run to the horizons southeast of Houston, but it has been a roller-coaster ride for Republicans, in yet another of those once safe G.O.P. districts that is now a gleam in the eye of Democratic Party leaders. "If this race gets any rockier, writing about it will require a chisel," Bob Dunn, editor of the FortBendNow news blog, told his readers...
...From his deathbed, a man directs a doctor and an aggrieved dad in new games Cost: $10 million Box office: Opens this week ICKIEST SCENE Two men wake up chained to pipes in a dirty bathroom and must saw off their feet to go free A woman's intestines gleam in the sun after she's smacked by a truck A Japanese tourist loses an eyeball to a blowtorch-wielding American businessman A man fights an ax-wielding mutant with a flagpole he pulls from a corpse's skull An unlucky spelunker ends up standing in a pool of blood...
...good jazz needs sticky carpets and nicotined walls could find the results a bit dazzling. But French designer Jacques Garcia, who also remodeled the opulent Hôtel Costes in Paris, has retained the club's laid-back ambience: red velvet, Philippe Starck lamps and brass rails (yes, they gleam), but he added another tier of banquettes to make the stage feel more like a boxing ring. "I wanted to give the musicians the feeling of absolute power," says Garcia. And where the food was always a bit of a joke - "A thousand flies can't be wrong...
...research institutes, biotech start-ups and global drug companies. At the ground level, researchers from some 50 countries meet and mingle over spicy laksa noodles, Philly cheesesteaks and German beer, discussing projects in English, the most widely spoken language in the multiethnic city. Inside, the well-stocked labs positively gleam. Ng Huck Hui, a team leader at the Genome Institute of Singapore, points to an expensive array of semiconductors. "We bought that three years ago, so by our standards it's pretty old," he says. "Might be time to get a new one." Says Lane, the Edinburgh expat who moved...