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Poiret (Assouline) Fashion journalist François Baudot tells the story of master couturier Paul Poiret, whose epic career in Paris spanned the Belle Epoque to the Roaring Twenties...
...spats between Roger and his wife Gretchen. While the tension begins to build at the end, the surprises that ensue seem to be almost gratuitous, for, by that point, the plot is so fatigued that even the jolt of energy cannot save it. One would think that as a journalist, an observer, Ignatius would have come to understand his fellow human beings. Sadly, that is not the case. Ignatius gives us caricatures, not characters. Alice, the supposedly enlightened American liberal who is truly not enlightened at all, is almost unreadable. “He’s kind of quiet...
...driven north to the provincial police headquarters at Gwanda. My escorts accused me of planning to write "negative" stories about Zimbabwe--as if arresting me would dispose me to more positive stories--and carried with them a report from West Nicholson's police chief describing me as a "dedicated journalist on a clandestine mission...
...case introduced himself as "Moyo" and disclosed that he approved of a beating if the crime warranted it. I was driven to the prosecutors' office and charged with breaching sections 79 and 80, Chapter 10: 27, of the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act, "working as a journalist without accreditation." The maximum sentence was two years...
...live in a culture in which racially and sexually edgy material is often - legitimately - considered brilliant comment, even art. Last year's most critically praised comedy, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, won Sacha Baron Cohen a Golden Globe for playing a Kazakh journalist who calls Alan Keyes a "genuine chocolate face" and asks a gun-shop owner to suggest a good piece for killing a Jew. Quentin Tarantino has made a career borrowing tropes from blaxploitation movies. In the critics-favorite sitcom The Sarah Silverman Program, the star sleeps with...