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...years. Something had to be done immediately. As a State Department official put it, "We're not talking voluntary checkup here. We're talking emergency-room procedure." Stanching the bleeding proved to be perhaps no better than first aid. In public the principals mustered a modest bonhomie to mute the disappointment. But TIME's look behind the closed-door negotiations, from Jerusalem to Cairo to Washington, found that under the smiles and civility lies the old intransigence...
...Septimus may have been involved, the identity of the rent-a-hermit, and who, exactly, Ezra Chater was. As they work through these various literary-historical mysteries, they also flirt with the waspish residents of the house, Valentine and Chloe Coverly (Willis Sparks and Annika Peterson). Oh, and a mute kid wanders about the premises. Sadly, he is mostly on stage...
...brood, and Koola, her daughter, was clinging to her side, Binti gathered the boy gently in her arms and took him to the door where most of his kind usually gathered. The humans, after retrieving the boy, went, well, ape. Binti became a heroine of the purest sort: mute, unassuming, expecting nothing. She hasn't even asked after the boy, who suffered brain contusions, bruises and a laceration but appears to have fully recovered. He remembers nothing of his ordeal...
...Mile's core cast of characters (the Mile itself is a painted corridor the cons must walk to what is inevitably known as Old Sparky). Set in the deep, sleepy and racist South of 1932, the novel asks the question, What if a hulking but gentle and close-to-mute black man with a gift for Christlike healing were sentenced to die for the brutal kidnapping and murder-rape of two little white girls--crimes he may or may not have committed? There are many familiar King elements: gore ( in this regard a botched electrocution is the novel's tour...
...dolls, a sharpie gone flat. Tonight he's got nothing better to do than talk to a taciturn desk clerk (the excellent Paul Benedict). The clerk hardly listens, but that doesn't matter. Erie could be speaking to a barkeep or a stranger on a bus, or to a mute God on a slow night in limbo. He's a nonstop mouth in search of an open...