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...that critics who read his witty marathon sentences and then flipped to the author photo of a young man willing himself to look older - like every fake I.D. picture ever taken - were powerless: they had to dub him the next literary voice of his generation. It's exactly the kind of over-enthusiastic cliché Wallace was so good at examining and twisting and footnoting into an ironic tangent, and it was that distrust for pat declarations and easy praise that made him such a terrific non-fiction writer...
...will. Scob, who nearly a half-century ago was the muse of the remarkable director George Franju (Eyes Without a Face, Thérese Desqueyroux, Judex), has an ingrained insight into the character that not only presents Hélene in her 70s but suggests the kind of mother she must have been. There's also a taut sensuality that hints at a family secret not revealed until after she dies...
...well today.”“We played through what many would say was a sloppy game,” Lau added. “They had a lot of confidence, but it’s good for our confidence now that we can play with this kind of team. It’ll be good momentum for us—we have a lot of games coming up.”Friday’s showing testified not only to the team’s ability to compete overall, but also to the steady progress of Leone?...
When Barack Obama announced that he had chosen Joe Biden as his running mate, Catholic Democrats knew some kind of religious rumble was inevitable...
...Texas Medical Center is under some kind of a lockdown. Workers who came on duty last night arrived with suitcases. They'll stay until Sunday. My 80-year-old godmother has been a patient at Methodist Hospital for five days. Her doctor told me yesterday that if she wasn't released by noon today, she's staying until Monday. She's eager to go home, but he wants her to stay. "We know you'll have food and water and someone to take care of you here," he said. After Tropical Storm Allison flooded generators in 2001, the Med Center...