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...tearing at the bread only so as to avoid tearing at himself.As she entered the study, Frederick was hunched forward, elbows on his knees, in an armchair. A volume of Byron dangled from one hand. He was staring off at nothing in particular.Timidly, Roxanna inquired if anything was the matter.“The Viscountess has vomited on the terrace,” Frederick said.“Alas!” cried Roxanna in virginal distress. “She is ill again?”“Yes, again,” said Frederick, allowing his hair...
...Voice Coming From?” she tries to portray the motivations of a racist murderer. And it is in the breadth of the collection that one can really see the driving force of all of Welty’s work: to portray all human lives, no matter how small, in all of their absurdity and poignancy. —Meredith S. Steuer
...objections" to the subpoena that needed to be answered before he would take the stand. Another lawyer for the Palins has said that Todd was too busy with the campaign to testify, as if standing stage left behind Sarah Palin, holding Trig and grinning during her speeches, were a matter of national security...
...less reason than ever to care about the dramedies and quirky cases of sexy doctors at a ritzy "wellness center," and the return episode trudges along like a 44-min. chore (even if there is some resonance, in this pregnancy-besotted election season, to the reproductive-medicine subject matter...
...gloom is the trademark of most newspaper headlines as of late. Oil prices rise and fall, but bear bad omens either way. The housing market continues to deflate. And in the midst of it all, a number of Wall Street’s most venerable institutions are disintegrating. No matter the cost to American taxpayers, and no matter what the path of one’s economic thinking, it is clear that in the case of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and, now, American International Group (AIG), the Federal Reserve did what it needed to do to protect everyday Americans...