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...Burton’s signature style and imagination is the golden ticket. Just as in “Big Fish,” we are treated to an unreal world where we want to believe. The stark grays of reality—and the gloom of abject poverty—are complemented by the rainbow colors of candy in the Wonka factory and the brilliant blues in the spick-and-span toothpaste plant where Charlie’s father worked...
...once given a key to paradise,? says my Iranian guide, Mehrdad, a bearish, soft-spoken man who translates Italian essayists and teaches English in Tehran, ?It was made in China, of plastic. The mullahs told us that the key would open the door to a golden palace with hundreds of rooms and a beautiful virgin in each room. You see, we were facing certain death - the Iraqis had poison gas.? Like hundreds of thousands of young conscripts in the Iran-Iraq war, Mehrdad was destined for a suicidal human-wave charge on the Iraqi lines. He was spared only...
...well. I don't remember the number off the top of my head. The test has been recalibrated twice since I took [it]. I know I made well over 1,000--1,000 was the target to shoot for back when I was in high school, back in the golden days...
...true believers, Half-Blood Prince will be pure pleasure. There's Quidditch, potion-class high jinks, apparition lessons, loads of snogging (Ron and Hermione are slowly sorting out their longtime mutual crush) and some lovely business with a golden potion called Felix Felicis that makes whoever imbibes it extra lucky. But this is the second-to-last book in the series, and for all the fun, the mood is darkening. You can't help but feel that Rowling is trotting out the fan favorites--your Tonks, your Luna, your Buckbeak, your Fred and George--for a final sunlit outing before...
Whether or not Kelly’s future is sunny or filled with golden showers, I’ll still be waiting with baited breath for his return to the “Closet...