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American fiction is in a satirical mood. Sometime in the 1990s--David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest makes a handy point of reference for weary travelers-- the earnest, rock-hewn realism of the Raymond Carver school gave way to a more fluid, molten hyperrealism. The widespread conviction that truth has become stranger than fiction triggered a kind of strangeness inflation, an arms race of exaggeration, wherein novelists satirically augment and amp up and overclock their fictions in an attempt to keep up with the sheer implausibility of real life...
...kids” were “cool with.” I replied that yes, it was.And indeed, it is—mostly.Décor first, since it may be Om’s biggest draw: the first floor is beautiful. The bar, backed by a rough-hewn stone wall, is illuminated with amber light. Plasma screens line the walls, streaming iTunes-esque visualizations in matching yellows and reds. One wall in the table area is covered with an ornate Tibetan painting of an intimidating-looking deity stomping on some fools and scaring away the bad mojo...
...repressive America before tragedy claims them. Now, in a somewhat more enlightened era, we are made to feel pity and even a touch of terror for them. Shrewdly positioned as a romance rather than a message movie, Brokeback comes at us quietly. We really like these guys--one rough-hewn and silent, the other eager and somewhat unformed--and the picture's unforced, almost casual realization keeps us sympathetically involved with them even when their fates lead them into uncharted territory...
...soul, something he attributes to the fact that everything he designs is handmade. ?Our jewelry is more than the sum of its parts,? he says. ?The man who carved your bracelet is proud of it.? That's Hardy's critical ingredient for luxury: the hand-hewn imperfections that turn a thing of beauty into a work...
...Dyke is one of the last of the wildcatters, independent operators who roam jungles and deserts looking for black gold. He has become the man to see if you need millions of barrels of crude oil a day to fuel a booming industrializing country, which is why the rough-hewn geologist found himself in Bermuda two years ago, hammering out a deal with executives of the Chinese national oil company Sinopec. "They were under pressure," Van Dyke recalls, and they were ready to make a deal. That meeting set in motion a year of negotiations, culminating in a $40 million...