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...should we make of the unblushing imperialist who won the Nobel Peace Prize? Or the economic conservative who attempted to make the Republican Party a friend to the workingman? When this book ends, with Roosevelt turning over the White House to his handpicked successor, William Howard Taft, you can laugh and marvel at what Teddy has done, but Morris has made it hard to evaluate...
...sure, or are they just saying that?" asks Hassan with a laugh. He surveys the battlefield, constantly kneading his prayer beads. His troops are meeting heavier resistance on the left flank. As they get out of their APC to try an assault, they are met with a crackle of AK-47 fire...
...Something About Mary, albinism in Me, Myself & Irene, obesity, spinal bifida and vestigial tails here. We mock, they say, because we care. But that doesn't make the film elevating or amusing. Torpor sticks to the actors' feet like gum on a movieplex floor. Will Hal make you laugh? Fat chance...
...This is the world of Ruchir Joshi's The Last Jet-Engine Laugh (Flamingo; 376 pages) a first novel that tells of three generations of an Indian family stretched over a century of political and social turmoil. Mahadev and Suman Pathak, Bhatt's parents, fall in love during Mohandas Gandhi's nonviolent agitations of the 1930s. Paresh Bhatt himself is a world traveler who wanders aimlessly through life, finally following his offspring back to India and settling down in his hometown of Calcutta. It is Joshi's witty fabrication of the future that lifts his work from the rash...
...socialize. Chatting with each other over caesar chicken wraps, fresh pastries, smoked mackerel, and assorted wines, the friends were consumed more by mingling and less by Penns prospects. Its going to be a good game. Edward Barrett said, gesturing wildly at his friends. Dan Belforti cut in with a laugh, So far its a really good tailgate! Raising his wineglass in a mock toast, Patrick Lyons concurred, Id be happy to stay here...