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...marriage, and Christabel LaMotte (Jennifer Ehle), a less renowned word magician. Imagine an affair between Robert Browning and Christina Rossetti and the scandal that would have rocked the 1860s--or the literary furor it might stoke today if the news were finally to come to light. That's the notion that drives two modern scholars, the American Roland (Aaron Eckhart) and the British Maud (Gwyneth Paltrow), deep into a long-submerged cache of love letters and finally into their own furtive embrace...
...teenage couples like Kayla, 17, and Gerald, 18. Kayla's mother is white, and her father is black; Gerald's mother is Japanese, and his dad is black. As they munch pizza in a bustling food court as diverse as a U.N. cafeteria, Kayla shrugs her shoulders at the notion of same-race friendships. "Personally, it doesn't matter what color you are," she says. "I am mixed, he is mixed, and most everybody is mixed...
...conflict, and like many moderate Arab regimes, they're particularly alarmed at the potential domestic consequences of a U.S. attack on Iraq while battles rage in the West Bank and Gaza. But the most forceful advocates of attacking Iraq, such as Defense Policy Board chairman Richard Perle, reject the notion that calming the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a prerequisite for attacking Iraq, arguing instead that removing Saddam's regime will break the logjam in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It's not an argument that resonates anywhere in the Arab world, but the neo-cons have little patience right...
...harder to create a joke than a platitude, Since a comedian requires ingenuity, while a humorist can coast on a querulous attitude. As the '50s ceded to the '60s, and the psychological to the psychedelic, Nash acquired the attic odor of a literary relic. The simple notion of an exact, if eccentric rhyme, Which Nash shared with the best lyricists of his generation, no longer applied in a day when songwriters twinned "June" with "broom" and "time" with "mine." Like Parker and Peter Arno, he represented The New Yorker's vanished ages. He vanished from the magazine's history, never...
...Kobe, but none would have occurred without the disaster. (It is the earthquake, for instance, that awakens the worm in Super Frog Saves Tokyo.) Some of the characters in After the Quake are allowed to find true love or happy endings, but there's a wicked twist in that notion. All six stories take place after the earthquake?but before the sarin gas attacks in Tokyo three months later, an event as fantastic as anything ever imagined by Murakami. If there's a sequel to this set of stories, it's going to get even weirder...