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...something about a shared meal--not some holiday blowout, not once in a while but regularly, reliably--that anchors a family even on nights when the food is fast and the talk cheap and everyone has someplace else they'd rather be. And on those evenings when the mood is right and the family lingers, caught up in an idea or an argument explored in a shared safe place where no one is stupid or shy or ashamed, you get a glimpse of the power of this habit and why social scientists say such communion acts as a kind...
...sizable, so tense and tangy, it was almost erotic. Think of it: a big new movie from an Oscar-winning quartet - star Tom Hanks, director Ron Howard, producer Brian Grazer, screenwriter Akiva Goldsman. Yet nearly as soon as The Da Vinci Code began, the critics fell into a peckish mood. At the end of a long, soggy film, the black-tie swells went off to their parties, and the critics slumped away to write their regretful pans. Though we didn't know it then, The Da Vinci Code experience would turn out to be Cannes 2006 in miniature: great hopes...
...World Cup?bound soccer team and dog-eared passports like mine. But these days I can't even travel to Romania without a lengthy wait for a visa. These were some of the thoughts going through my head as I watched happy Montenegrins celebrating through the night, but my mood was not entirely bleak. After all, this move to independence was not followed by the grotesque terrors of artillery fire and burning villages that sent convoys of refugees toiling through Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo (Macedonia slipped out easily, but that was only because Milosevic was busy elsewhere at the time...
...FEEL AS IF IN THE PAST 10 OR 15 YEARS YOU'VE BEEN IN A RESTLESS, EXPLORING MOOD, PUSHING YOURSELF BEYOND THE REALM OF THE TRADITIONALLY UPDIKEAN BOOK. YOU'VE WRITTEN MAGIC REALISM AND SCIENCE FICTION AND NOW A THRILLER. Part of my setting up shop was the idea that I should produce a book a year--that this was a better way to run being a writer than to think of yourself as a kind of a priest-prophet, the way American writers like Norman Mailer--the esteemed Norman Mailer--did. Now, with modern medicine, and modern Protestant lifestyle...
...daughter's grade school. "What do you feel about the verdicts?" Since I had met with Ken Lay in August 2001 to warn him of Enron's shady accounting and Lay for the most part ignored my warnings, the reporter wanted to know, "Do you feel vindicated?" My mood did not remain joyous or celebratory. I stammered something about being satisfied that justice prevailed. What I couldn't convey in words is a sense of sadness, sadness for what could have been...