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...shouldn't surprise that Waugh batted better than he writes. His tour diaries have been bestsellers, but Out of My Comfort Zone reads like a compilation of these - a superdiary in which almost everything is deemed worth a mention. Waugh's probably never heard of Ernest Hemingway's theory of omission, which is basically that prose reads better when the obvious is left out. Hemingway would have choked on Waugh's cavalcade of superfluous adjectives, and on sentences like, "Failure can lead you into a dark abyss of gloom and depression." But then Hemingway couldn't play the cut shot...
...well-wishers at the Grand Hotel in Oslo, Norway. Tall, exquisitely tailored, he dispenses soft handshakes and his world-famous smile. The 27 years he spent in South African prisons seem somehow to have left him younger than his 75 years; he looks well + rested and benign. The mention of a newborn baby boy makes him beam. Because of his confinement, he did not get to see his own two youngest daughters grow up, and since his release he has kindled a love affair with his grandchildren. Gradually, as Mandela begins to talk of how his fellow Peace Prize winner...
...minutes in Oslo. Not enough. O.K., then, he would have 90 minutes in Rome the night before seeing the Pope on Monday. Done. Getting Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin was more complicated. They were supposed to meet in Cairo on Dec. 12 or 13, but their schedule (not to mention their peace agreement) was in flux, especially given the violence erupting in the occupied territories. Both sides had consented in theory to give TIME a joint interview in Cairo, which would have been a historic scoop (and convenient under the circumstances), but in case of a hitch there...
...from the fey foil he usually plays. But Foxx is forced to do the best he can with a one-dimensional role and Chris Cooper is wasted as a stereotypically foul-mouthed, hard-edged officer. “Jarhead”’s characters annoyingly avoid any mention of Bush Sr., preferring platitudes about how politics don’t matter in combat. The movie’s reluctance to explore the First Gulf War’s broader ramifications is especially bewildering now, while we’re fighting a second. Ultimately, “Jarhead?...
With characteristic humility, Murakami never asked Carver any questions about translation during their meeting, nor did he mention that he was also an author. He speaks of this decision with remorse. “I guess I should have done that,” he says, speaking slowly and thoughtfully, weighing his words. “But I didn’t know he would die so young...