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...pomposity. "The alliances and disputes of the warrior families at this time are hard to remember," he confesses, "because the sides changed so often and the names of the participants were so similar." (Just what I was thinking, says the reader.) Yet the book is always authoritative and lucid. Anyone curious about the development of the legendary style of Japan will find it an invaluable and charming guide...
...first-time watcher of the Super Bowl, Dartboard had never in his wildest dreams expected such a gripping last quarter. His surprise was exceeded only by the decadent halftime show, which featured such an assortment of performers as to convince any lucid observer that the population of this country is entirely contained in the 18-25 age group. But it wasn’t so much who the performers were as what they were doing that had Dartboard disbelieving his own eyes. And Dartboard doesn’t mean the famous undressing. (A much-celebrated moment that...
...years, but he wasn't corrupt, and that anomaly?plus the widely admired interregnum comment?led to an amazing acceptance after Marcos' ouster, culminating in his appointment as Foreign Secretary in 2002. When I met him a few weeks before he died, Blas, 76, was short of step but lucid and humorous?and he never forgot to light a fresh cigarette directly after the previous one expired. He recalled the 1986 phone call in which he told Marcos the Reagan Administration's support was collapsing. "Blas," Marcos bellowed. "You know the Soviets. Can you give them a call?" Remembering this...
...plunks and skittering knock-knocks in Lou Harrison's Concerto in Slendro and also to the sustained, exalted moan of Mahler's Fifth Symphony? Can the huff and puff of the Carmina Burana sound any good in the same space where soprano Dawn Upshaw unfolds that lucid, liquid C? The curving interior of the Disney Hall was developed by Gehry with Yasuhisa Toyota, a partner in the Tokyo firm Nagata Acoustics...
Details of that terrorism triangle form the explosive final chapter in Posner's examination of who did what wrong before Sept. 11. Most of his new book, Why America Slept (Random House), is a lean, lucid retelling of how the CIA, FBI and U.S. leaders missed a decade's worth of clues and opportunities that if heeded, Posner argues, might have forestalled the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Posner is an old hand at revisiting conspiracy theories. He wrote controversial assessments dismissing those surrounding the J.F.K. and Martin Luther King Jr. assassinations. And the Berkeley-educated lawyer is adept at marshaling...