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...deep into the film before those twins remove their tops and grind against each other during the wet-T-shirt contest (ending up in third place; you don't want to know what the winners did), gently setting the tone of the film. In between the scenes of plastered guys propositioning women, there are montages of such wholesome teen activities as swimming with dolphins and bungee jumping. But mostly it's drunken...
...Salman Rushdie, and rubbing his own with publishing hotshots Zadie Smith and Toby Litt. Rhodes' presence there is all the more remarkable since his first novel, Timoleon Vieta Come Home (Canongate; 214 pages), is only now arriving in bookstores and is likely, he says, to be his last. The grind of writing Timoleon Vieta, Rhodes says, has cost him too much, and though he's flattered by his newfound status, his bigger consolation is that the ordeal is over. If the remainder rack beckons for Timoleon Vieta, he might return to the Tunbridge Wells, England, bookshop he worked in until...
...four of us have chartered a driver and guide to take us cross-country from the capital, Ulan Bator, to the northwestern Lake Hovsgol in a Swiss Alpine-like region of reindeer herders near the Russian border. Though the trip is scheduled for two days, it takes four to grind over dried-out riverbeds and slog through mud bogs between hills that roll like waves and crest into craggy rock. The land is so empty at times that a mere stand of trees is welcome relief...
...Across the board, our main focus was for all the boats to just grind away—[there was] no set race plan,” captain Nick Blannin said...
Yesterday was Self’s turn to star. For his next trick, he’ll try to avoid flash-in-the-plan status. Recent history is on his side. The grind of the league season, whose back-to-back doubleheader format subjects Ivy pitching staffs to a mean sort of social Darwinism, has a way of making household names out of no-names. Consider the rags-to-riches story of Chaney Sheffield ’02, last year. A former walk-on, Sheffield was tabbed as a last-minute replacement last April amid a starter crunch not dissimilar...