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...purity. Acts that other listeners take for granted as part of the twangy firmament, from Willie Nelson to Shania Twain, are often disparaged for their perceived experimental perversions--not enough fiddle, too much navel--with a prim cruelty that would not be out of place in an Edith Wharton novel. "One of the subjects of debate on our message boards is always, 'Is it country?'" says Calvin Gilbert, managing editor of cmt.com the online extension of Country Music Television (CMT). "With Troy, it seems like it's the only subject of debate...
...Sally Farber, the protagonist of Lisa Grunwald's novel Whatever Makes You Happy (Random House; 238 pages), notes, quarrels about what anger means, or sadness, or envy. "But happiness is-it's-a shimmer." Farber, 40, has had no trouble writing books on The History of Anger, The History of Jealousy and even The History of Love, but she's hung up on writing the biography of happiness. Two kids running into the bedroom "like bright, sharp arrows," a "tidy, perfect, kitchen drawer" of a husband plus a book contract, and still, for Sally, happiness lies around the corner...
...tycoon goes to Europe and eventually sheds glum responsibility (and a ditzy wife) in favor of true love-the divine Mary Astor. In the movies' highest romantic era, no film achieved more entrancing heights than Wyler's adaptation of Sinclair Lewis' best novel...
...instance, Nora N. Khan ’05 won for her 100-page fictional work “‘One’ (A Novel),” which tells the story of a young Chechnyan freedom fighter who becomes a suicide bomber from the girl’s own perspective...
...experience was soul-rending,” she said, adding that she had to rewrite the novel several times to cut down on the verbosity...