Word: morrison
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...great family man, very much devoted to his wife and children,” said Maureen Morrison, a HUPD officer in the Longwood Medical School campus who worked the shift before Pierce. “He was the chief cook and bottle washer there...
...neither Jhumpa Lahiri nor Jonathan Lethem in the mix, Edward Jones' magisterial The Known World is the favorite to sweep a weak field.) Which reminds us that there are only two living Americans who own a Nobel Prize for Literature. One is Saul Bellow, and the other is Toni Morrison, whose first novel in five years is called Love (Knopf; 202 pages). With a title like that, you'd better have a big hunk of Swedish gold in your pocket to back...
...flap copy reminds us, a trifle touchily, that it's still "major") with a snazzy mystery plot, some energetic sex and flashes of witty banter. ("If this wasn't hell," Christine says of her living arrangements, "it was the lobby.") But why isn't it more fun? Partly because Morrison is so interested in the play of memory and time and point of view that readers have to do a lot of homework just to figure out what's going on. Partly because, like so many master portraitists, Morrison is drawn to ugly people, so readers spend...
...Decked out like a debauched fantasy of late 19th century Paris, this three-story café-bar features a soaring atrium, 12-m trees and an atmosphere in which Toulouse-Lautrec would have felt right at home. For dinner, head over to Halo in the John Rocha-designed Morrison Hotel, tel: (353-1) 887 2400. Here, chef Jean-Michel Poulot works with the freshest local produce in a restaurant widely considered to be Dublin's best...
...Decked out like a debauched fantasy of late 19th century Paris, this three-story café-bar features a soaring atrium, 12-m trees and an atmosphere in which Toulouse-Lautrec would have felt right at home. For dinner, head over to Halo in the John Rocha-designed Morrison Hotel, tel: (353-1) 887 2400. Here, chef Jean-Michel Poulot works with the freshest local produce in a restaurant widely considered to be Dublin's best...