Word: haltering
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...Each land shall be full of you and each sea; and every one shall be incensed at your customs." So the Apocrypha prophesies, and so Marek Halter's enormous novel echoes with the unfurling of Jewish history from the sacking of Jerusalem to the anguish of the Warsaw ghetto...
Following the fortunes of one family for nearly two millenniums requires an epic of biblical dimension. In another writer's hands such a project might seem an unholy wedding of hubris and chutzpah. But Halter is an extraordinary contributor to the post-Holocaust literature of lament. The author is the son, grandson and greatgrandson of printers and publishers in Warsaw. As a child, he was smuggled to safety through the sewers of the city's ghetto as the Germans closed in; after wandering in the Soviet Union, he found his way to France. "Somewhere along the line," he recalls...
...Cover your boobs when your entire halter top falls down as you’re standing front and center. Instead, keep dancing as though nothing has happened. The audience and judges might like the booby show...
This young woman—with a fake tan that would shame Donatella Versace—made me lose much of my faith in the universe. It might be springtime, but that doesn’t mean board shorts and halter-tops. This isn’t California, where the convenient smog keeps the beaches insulated (and the children stunted). This is Boston, where the weather is downright unpredictable. Get the hell over...
...Cover your boobs when your entire halter top falls down as you’re standing front and center. Instead, keep dancing as though nothing has happened. The audience and judges might like the booby show...