Word: pantheons
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...citizens the information to make political decisions and the tools to participate in public life, both prerequisites of self-governance. Why then are people so cynical about the press? Because the press has become so cynical about politics, argues James Fallows in his devastatingly reasonable critique Breaking the News (Pantheon; 296 pages...
NEAR THE END OF THE MOOR'S Last Sigh (Pantheon; 434 pages; $25), a madman holds the novel's narrator, Moraes Zogoiby, prisoner. The captor, an old but rejected friend of Zogoiby's late, flamboyant mother, demands a history of her family before killing its teller. "He had made a Scheherazade of me," Moraes writes. "As long as my tale held his interest he would let me live...
...quickly stopped trying to prove otherwise. He found books more reliable than friends, particularly tales of men who brought old empires crashing down and built new ones in their place. Everyone from Ataturk to the Duke of Wellington, Abraham Lincoln to Father Flanagan, figures somewhere in his pantheon. If people don't like him, if they mock his aspirations or despise his principles, he doesn't much care--as long as they read about...
...each phrase, the whisper of lightly ironic girl talk in "just a little too tight," the clear but not prissy enunciation--these are signs of a true storyteller in song. And since she delivers the whole verse in a single confident breath, Twain gets a free pass into the pantheon of thrushes...
...discuss comic actresses is to invoke some sacred names from Hollywood's golden age. Ryan, who as a kid in Fairfield, Connecticut, loved to watch the classic comedies, has acute ad-lib analyses of the pantheon residents. On Carole Lombard: "Elegant, but a little blue collar. She's not afraid to be funny at her own expense." Rosalind Russell: "A real quick draw, the fastest of them all, and extremely comfortable with winning." Audrey Hepburn: "In a class by herself. She was mysterious, but totally vulnerable and accessible. There was a light in her eye. And she loved being...