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...Little's parents are threatened by the Ku , Klux Klan. In the '30s he finds both acceptance and isolation in white foster homes and white schools. In the '40s Malcolm (embodied with potent charm by Denzel Washington) is a rakish dude, running numbers and lording it over his white mistress Sophia. In the '50s he finds Allah in jail and becomes a minister of the Black Muslim faith under the sect's founder, Elijah Muhammad. In the '60s, with the encouragement of his wife Betty, he breaks from the racist Nation of Islam and pays for this social enlightenment with...
...true, dangerous deception, the impression created by the manufacturer in the enforced absence of information that such implants are safe? When a wife asks her husband how his day went, is he obliged to answer, "Great -- I spent the lunch hour in a motel room with my mistress"? If he does not disclose this detail, is he guilty of lying, or is he -- the cheat -- simply sparing his wife's feelings or avoiding a potentially unpleasant scene...
Sontag creamily shifts perspective. The hero and his mistress are egoists gone on fame and oblivious to the welfare of the masses. Off the poop deck, Nelson is an unimposing shrimp. Without her billowing satins, Emma the society swan is grossly overstuffed. Most of the action takes place in Naples, where nearby Mount Vesuvius huffs and puffs. It is a natural wonder, but also an unavoidable symbol of molten passion and the republican revolution that erupts in France and spreads south...
True to the title, Patrick takes the easy way out. It isn't very admirable. McCauley builds the climax with the ingenuity of an experienced comic novelist. Curling through the book has been the saga of Patrick's efforts to get a Harvard professor and his secret mistress a scarce reservation in Bermuda. After the kind of sure but wayward plotting that marks the work of David Lodge, Britain's master of academic foolery, it turns out that Patrick gets to enjoy the booking and the island's velvet sands -- with Arthur a thousand miles north...
...other characters are similarly frustrated with the gaps between words and reality. When Julian Baker (Thomas Derrah), the socialist son of Tarleton's old mistress, arrives and tries to kill Tarleton, he first tries to justify the murder in true bourgeois fashion, saying he's avenging his mother's "ruin...