Word: nicks
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...first few minutes, FX's Thief (Tuesdays, 10 p.m. E.T.) seems to be in the same jaunty, crime's-a-spree mold. As in Heist, we begin with a wisecracking crew getting ready to take down a cache of jewels--"Just say no to blow, kids," quips ringleader Nick (Andre Braugher) as he blasts open a vault. But the game quickly gets heavy, and the story more gripping: along the way, Nick's crew finds and steals a pile of cash that turns out to belong to the Chinese Mafia. Revenge is sought, friends turn on each other, and people...
Braugher is a surprising choice as Nick, since he has been closely associated with upstanding types like cops and doctors (Homicide, Gideon's Crossing). But, Braugher insists, "Nick is an honorable character"--in his own way. Unlike Tony Soprano, he is unselfish and has tightly circumscribed rules--don't let emotion get in the way of business, don't rob anyone who won't be made whole by insurance--and he's an attentive family man. In the middle of the first robbery, he takes a cell-phone call from his stepdaughter's school. But when his men break...
...Okay, so the chick-lit plot’s not exactly Natalie Krinsky’s “Chloe Does Yale” or Nick McDonell ’06’s “Twelve.” There are barely any drugs, the narrator is more concerned with drinking Diet Coke than selling cocaine, and over the course of 200 pages, there is only one “fuck,” one “kiss,” and one imaginary handjob...
...Viswanathan obsessively references contemporary singers/shows and prods her readers to think about what it means to grow up too fast and what it feels like to be a cliché, it becomes clear that she’s following proudly in the tradition of Ivy League literary wunderkinds like Nick McDonell, Natalie Krinsky, and Liz Wurtzel ’89. Just like them, Viswanathan is compulsively concerned with authenticity and the anxiety of alienation...
...disliking. Not like you’ll see them anyway—the truth is that if someone lives in a different entryway, let alone a different house, you will have almost no inclination to see them unless you need to borrow Drumline or some equally hilarious Nick Cannon DVD. “I Want to Be Quaded”: The Fallacy According to our “inside” source, an overwhelming number of blocking groups are making the bold claim that they want to live in the Quad. The great paradox of this mentality is that future...