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...judgement and grimly lonesome ways. We suspect he may come to a bad end, but we are not prepared for the shock and suddenness of its arrival. We're almost equally surprised when Nicola's wife, a gifted pianist, descends into the murderous radicalism that afflicted Italy during the "leaden years" of the 1970s. In tracing these two lives, director Marco Tulio Giordana effortlessly evokes many of the great events of Italy's recent past, ranging from the floods in Florence to the struggle against the Mafia in Sicily. At the same time he deftly involves us with a huge...
Like Sugar Ray Leonard against Roberto Duran, Hearns selected masculinity for a style, if the choice was his. "I started out slugging because I had to, it was there," he insists. "Marvin started running in. I had to protect myself." Like Duran, Hearns learned the leaden lesson of moving a few pounds up, in his case from 154 lbs. to 160, where men no longer fall apart when you hit them...
When it comes to writing memoirs, journalists either have it or they don't. Too much recycled reportage, and the account turns leaden, leaving readers craving the terse economy of the writer's original articles; too much indulgence in personal reminiscence, and the result can be cloying and sentimental. But in Chasing the Dragon: A Veteran Journalist's Firsthand Account of the 1949 Chinese Revolution, Roy Rowan gets the ingredients just right, providing an account that has both factual heft and robust flavor...
...guard the social safety net--health care, education, pensions, wages and jobs--that was in danger of fraying for citizens less able to absorb the changes resulting from the high-tech revolution and a global consumer culture." Living History is, first and last, a political memoir, and the leaden formalities of the genre apply. It is also the memoir of an active--and very ambitious--politician. The Senator is looking to augment her political viability. She reveals that she once went hunting and killed a duck (Chelsea was horrified). She reveals that she met with a bipartisan prayer group (including...
...then came the desserts. Instead of the sticky-sweet leaden pastry that many Middle Eastern joints try to pass off as baklava, the balawa bil ishta is light, flaky and subtly sweetened with crushed nuts and honey. The sinfully rich shoukolatat habibti, flavored with honey and cinnamon, hovers somewhere between a dark-chocolate truffle and a mousse...