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...secret but ardent yearlong courtship by Dean. Yes, it may be a marriage of convenience, but the hushed backroom cell-phone calls, the clandestine visits, the little apercus of agreement on global warming are all part of a modern political romance novel. Apparently the doctor has a bedside manner after all. But the relationship did not really get serious until Gore decided it was time for a blunt conversation in August. The country needed to learn more about Dean than the fact that he was against everything that George Bush says and does, Gore told him. Dean needed to tell...
Dean's anger is tactical, not visceral. His brash, peremptory manner has camouflaged the fact that he is by far the best politician among the 2004 Democrats--which is one reason Republicans should postpone the champagne if Dean wins the nomination. The doctor diagnosed the Democratic electorate before any of his opponents did, and he shaped his candidacy to fit the mood, which was, in a word, ballistic. Furthermore, Dean understood that party activists were not just angry at George W. Bush; they were furious with the Democrats in Washington who were letting a minority-elected President have...
...practical skills, Ada is saved by the arrival of the can-do mountain gal Ruby Thewes (Renee Zellweger). As Ada passes her Ruby Thewes days struggling to keep her farm from failing and the local bully Teague (Ray Winstone) from pressing his lurid attentions on her, Inman meets all manner of strangers--good witches and bad, a rogue (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and a young widow (Natalie Portman). Inman shows how fleeing a war can be an act of love, Ada how staying at home is an act of courage...
...Vision (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 258 pages) ought to be a must to avoid. It's anything but. Granted, it has all those things, plus 9/11, Slobodan Milosevic and a good many predatory birds. But it's also the work of the subtle British novelist Pat Barker, whose dry-eyed manner and nuanced view of good and evil made her Regeneration trilogy, about World War I, a triumph. Her spare but still sometimes resplendent writing, her gift for menace--it's all in this book, and it makes you want to follow her even when she gets lost in the tangles...
...These movies will introduce the novice to all manner of Woolrich obsessions. The hero who sees things no one believes (?Phantom Lady,? ?Fear Is the Night,? ?Night Has a Thousand Eyes,? ?The Window,? ?Martha?). The heroine whom love drives to deception (?No Man of Her Own?), murder (?The Bride Wore Black,? ?Mississippi Mermaid?) or near-death (?Martha?). The obtuse cop (?Phantom,? ?Black Angel,? ?Fear,? ?Thousand Eyes,? ?The Window,? ?Rear Window?). The letter with ominous news (?No Man,? ?Rear,? ?Mermaid?). The murderous or suicidal impulses on an el platform or train overpass (?Phantom,? ?Thousand,? ?The Window,? ?No Man?). The race...