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...case, well, let's cut a chimp some slack here: Cheeta's screen career, which stretched right up to 1967 (Dr. Dolittle), called for a mastery of physical performance - mime, slapstick, acro- and aerobatics - not of stage English. Even his leading man, Tarzan, rarely ventured much beyond "Aaaheeyaaheeyaheeyaheeyah" or "Jane not worry." Now though, at the age of 76, and living out the last of his days in a Palm Springs sanctuary, Cheeta has found the voice to match his remarkable story...
...Widows of Eastwick, Updike revisits the three suburban housewives from Witches: Jane, Sukie and Alexandra. Old now and alone--their husbands have died of natural causes--they reunite and return to Eastwick to make peace with the many ghosts they left behind there: the rival they killed, the children they neglected, the lovers they dumped, their all-but-vanished sexuality and, not the least gruesome specter of the lot, the 1970s...
...once the source of their power. The bodies that gave them such glorious satanic leverage over the world are now dragging them down. One wonders whether anybody has ever described the small physical indignities of the aging process with as much tenderness and good humor as Updike. "Energy," Jane says. "I can't remember what it was like to have any. The thought of opening the microwave sickens...
...sold under 10,000 copies since it was first printed. Notable past winners of the non-fiction title include Rachel Carson, George F. Kennan, Gore Vidal, and Thomas L. Friedman. The other finalists were Annette Gordon-Reed, a professor at Rutgers and New York Law School, journalists Jane Meyer and Jim Sheeler, and Cambridge resident Joan Wickersham. Faust has said in past interviews that “This Republic of Suffering” will likely be her last book for the foreseeable future, as she does not plan to write while serving as Harvard’s president...
...deposits in their regions for arms. Rather than seek the backing of friendly foreign officials - as Dos Santos allegedly did in the mid-'90s - combatants can now bulk up on their own dime. "Each group raises its own funds and then negotiates to buy weapons," says Will Hartley of Jane's Terrorism and Insurgency Center in London. "Gone are the days when governments will send weapons and cash into African states...