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...second half of the book, Katin reminds us of life's kindnesses as the other side to life's cruelty. Still alive at the end of the war, her father returns to Budapest in search of his family, only to find them long gone. He begins his own parallel journey as Esther and Miriam take up residence with a family friend, the lonely scion of a local industrialist, whose family are all dead. A French governess provides a comic and blissfully domestic antidote to the earlier scenes of outrageous hardship. As the story winds up, it concludes with a bittersweet...
...kind of author not interested in easy drama and simplistic explanations. In a series of chapters that more or less follow Bechdel from young childhood until her college years, the book traces her father's story and her own in the context of his secret. This way she can parallel her life as a lesbian who healthfully revealed her inclination shortly before her father's death, only to discover his inner life as a corrupted version...
...penalty shoot-out. The $905 million depot consists of a soaring, 321-m-long, 9,000-glass-pane hall covering tracks[an error occurred while processing this directive] running east to west, a 46-m-high barrel-vaulted steel-and-glass hall and two rectangular office buildings running parallel to the underground north-south lines, plus a shopping galleria. It's on the site of the city's Lehrter Stadtbahnhof, inaugurated in 1871, the year the German Empire was founded. Badly damaged in World War II, most of the building was later razed, leaving just four inner-city tracks...
...Coppola's artistic mission was to parallel Marie and her retinue with today's modern youth, cocooned in their own search for pleasure. Straddling the centuries, Coppola puts her idle rich in period dress and accompanies their fatuous frolics with raucous rock music. The spirit here is less the divine decadence of Paris, France, than the spoiled shallowness of Paris Hilton. Obsessed with their games, gossip and petty erotic intrigues, these Valley children of privilege are oblivious to the needs and sufferings of oppressed humanity. Coppola, herself a princess of movie royalty, may be painting a corrosive portrait...
...gift to the University of Missouri in 1999. It should not be used to enhance Mr. Lay's image in Houston when juries are about to be selected," Battistoni told TIME after learning of the attempt to reclaim the money. Lay's spokeswoman Kelly Kimberly rejected the Scrushy parallel, noting that the Lays were long-time philanthropists, who gave nearly $25 million to non-profits between...