Word: novelists
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...minor leaguers, benchwarmers and aging stars. Never has an American of top status been guilty of defection - and certainly no one like Ichiro who, with an exotic foot-in-the-air stance, has won an unprecedented seven-straight batting titles.) "It's a disaster in the making," says novelist and baseball writer Masayuki Tamaki. "Japan is losing all its heroes...
...Ernest Hemingway also managed a certain amphibianism. He drank prodigiously at night, then had the discipline to rise in the morning and write for several hours before the sun crept toward the yardarm and it was time to drink again. The Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima, a talented fanatic, would attend dinner parties until midnight, then go home and write until dawn. He died by ritual suicide in the midst of leading his private militia in a notably screwball coup attempt at a Japanese army headquarters...
...intricately structured screenplay by novelist Guillermo Arriaga keeps reverting, ever more intimately and horrifically, to that crash, not merely showing it as the major figures in three intertwined stories experience it but also letting us see their lives prior to and after the disaster that radically reshapes their fates. Inarritu, 37, who has made hundreds of TV commercials in Mexico City, consciously intends his movie to be a portrait of his "dangerous, beautiful" hometown. The film is muy espanol, a portrait that blends harsh realism with a curious tenderness. It is also muy Bunuel, but without his conscious surrealism...
Nobel Prize-winning novelist and Princeton Professor Toni Morrison spoke before a packed Sanders Theatre yesterday...
...London: "In terms of outlook and attitudes toward life, there are a lot of shared values among young Europeans. It has to do with a sense of being tolerant and open, and a willingness to try new things." It's no longer unusual for someone like the French novelist Frédéric Biegbeder, 35, to profess little desire to leave France but also "feel totally European. And that means I don't give a damn about France. I go along with John Lennon: 'Imagine there's no countries...