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...sign of a quiet revolution under way in Jordan. The new King, who ascended the throne after his father's death last year, is intent on doing the nation's business in unusual ways. Hence the getups. Ten times in disguise--ranging from a TV reporter to a sick patient--but also frequently without it, the King has plunged into his domain on snap inspection missions. What he discovers--civil servants drinking tea, gossiping and knocking off early as they give their countrymen endless runarounds--has him axing useless officials and groaning about the bloated bureaucracy when he gets home...
...takes a while for the narrative strategies of City of God to start meshing, but readers willing to be intrigued and patient for about 30 pages will get the hang of things. The entire novel comes from the notebooks of an author called Everett. Although he never reveals his last name, other personal details seep into his story. He is a New Yorker, born in the Bronx during the Depression. He has written for the movies, enjoys women, music and bird watching and keeps up on the latest theories of the cosmologists. After setting down a bravura description...
...technicians whose primary concern, beneath the senseless formalities they are required to spew, is research. In all fairness, each does work with relative competence to save Dr. Bearing's life in the face of metastasized cancer, but only one character attempts to salvage the vanishing shreds of the patient's dignity in the process. Susie (Lisa Tharps) gives a moving performance as the simple-minded nurse who ultimately proves to be more intelligent than she appears in providing Dr. Bearing the compassion she needs...
...their hair again. Maybe an attempt to escape the monochrome colors of barren Cambridge?... Our designer suggested that the public embraces American Beauty because it makes them think they're thinking when they're really not thinking at all. (I would compare it to Salman Rushdie or The English Patient. The latter is a terrible, thuddingly boring movie. And no, it wasn't intelligent. Just because people speak with a British accent doesn't mean they're intelligent.)... Speaking of which, why are pseudo-accents popping up all over Harvard? If I hear one more fake British accent that falls...
...minimum wage hike and the balanced budget - came in 1996. This year the Republicans have two problems: First, they've got this popular president with an ambitious agenda, and they don't want to be a do-nothing Congress; second, a lot of his issues, such as the Patient's Bill of Rights and gun control, are very popular with the public...