Word: minding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...turns out that Jelly's boss, Paul Vitti (Robert De Niro), hasn't been feeling well lately. He hasn't been his usual heartless self. He can't beat his enemies to a pulp anymore. "You havin' one of them mind-grains?" Jelly asks. Paul insists he's having a coronary but feels well enough to pound the doctor who dares to tell him it's only an anxiety attack. Jelly decides to be helpful and gives his boss Ben Sobol's business card...
...lives rather than plot-driven Hollywood cliffhangers with dazzling denouements. There may be an occasional epiphany, a sudden realization about particular relationships between characters, but the "aha" factor is minute and quite understated. The arc of the three novels is practically flat, with no particular direction or resolution in mind. What Chaudhuri is more interested in is relishing every moment of a typical day, the sights, sounds and smells of his cities...
...your doorbox), but the Sunday before that. This is deadline numero uno. Deadline numero dos occurs on Thursday. That's when all the other stuff is due, all the timely For the Moments and storied In the Meantime. Listing prove the one exception: Their deadline comes on Friday. Mind you, though, they should have been assigned the Monday before. And their content must cover not the following week, but the week after that. Confused? I'll tell you a secret...
...your doorbox), but the Sunday before that. This is deadline numero uno. Deadline numero dos occurs on Thursday. That's when all the other stuff is due, all the timely For the Moments and storied In the Meantimes. Listings prove the one exception: Their deadline comes on Friday. Mind you, though, they should have been assigned the Monday before. And their content must cover not the following week, but the week after that. Confused? I'll tell you a secret...
...reporter Alain Sanders, who covered Blackmun during much of the Justice's career. "Early on he was viewed as second-rate, the Minnesota twin of Warren Burger," Sanders notes. "But over time he split with the Chief Justice, finding his own voice on the court." Indeed, ever an open mind, Blackmun reversed his support for capital punishment in 1994. "I shall no longer tinker with the machinery of death," he wrote...