Word: knifings
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...life. "You can place this story anywhere," Bhardwaj says, "in the army, in a bank, in journalism. It's a vicious, furious, bleak story. It's human." But Bhardwaj chose not a bank or newsroom but the Muslim underworld, and that imbues the film with urban slickness and the knife-edge insecurity of dog-eat-dog violence...
...staked out disputed new turf for youth fiction. Its 13-year-old black hero, Sephy, starts out French-kissing her 15-year-old white boyfriend, Callum; encounters racism, alcoholism, depression and suicide; and ends up pregnant and alone when Callum is hanged for terrorism. In Blackman's sequel, Knife Edge (Doubleday; 364 pages), published this month, things take a turn for the worse. What really caught the imagination of young readers in Noughts and Crosses - and made Blackman the only black writer in the BBC's recent poll of Britain's 100 favorite books - was a simple, profoundly disconcerting, plot...
...literature, Knife Edge is a bit of a letdown, sagging with serial indignities where Noughts and Crosses was taut with sheer indignation. For example, Sephy's attempt to cut it as a singer in the noughts' underground music scene feels peripheral (and lyrically, she's no Eminem). But Blackman promises to end her bleak trilogy next year on a note of hope. What a nice, old-fashioned idea - especially...
...down that steak knife. The promoters of the Atkins diet appear to be backing off the idea--embraced by millions of Atkins adherents--that the eating plan is an invitation to gorge on all the fat and red meat you can eat. Officials of the diet company now say there's a limit to how much saturated fat dieters should consume. During the two-week "induction phase," for example, company nutritionists say 60% of calories should come from fat, and roughly a third of that from saturated fats (the rest should consist of the kinds of poly-and monounsaturated fats...
...problem isn't just that Dizzee's East London accent is thick, though it is. It's that Dizzee (ne Dylan Mills), 19, speaks in a tangled local idiom in which choppah means knife, chaps are chains and sket means slut. In Britain, where most rappers still spit moldy American hip-hop cliches, Dizzee is celebrated as a rap original. (Boy in Da Corner beat out albums by Radiohead and Coldplay for the country's prestigious Mercury Prize.) But American audiences--who get Dizzee's album on Jan. 20, six months after the Brits--have a right to ask: What...