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...gravity of English writing. So much of the new, best stuff was coming from what once had been the periphery of Empire: from Africa, India, the Caribbean, New Zealand, Australia. Naipaul's work was a major part of this process, as was that of an earlier Nobelist, the Australian Patrick White. Naipaul wrote with piercing insight and even tenderness about ignored areas of experience (lower-middle-class Trinidadian life, for instance, in A House for Mr. Biswas, 1961). What was more, when he decided to leave Trinidad, separation gave him a great theme: the condition of being an expatriate...
Like Smallville, director Barry Sonnenfeld's parody The Tick bets that old-fashioned superhero tales will not, so to speak, fly today. The dim-bulb hero (Patrick Warburton, Seinfeld's Puddy) is a font of cockeyed metaphors ("I will spread my buttery justice over your every nook and cranny!"), and in the pilot he fights a Soviet robot built in 1979 to kill Jimmy Carter, as if to admit that the very idea of the infallible superhero is decades outdated. Based on Ben Edlund's cult comic, this is exactly the kind of highly ironic, hero-puncturing entertainment that...
Bereaved parents often say the best and most healing comfort is found in the presence of other bereaved parents. "I'm not sure I would have survived without the Compassionate Friends. I was fairly convinced I was going nuts," says Patrick Malone, 59, of Snellville, Ga. "I was sitting across the table from a man who started talking about what he experienced that first year, and it was like every thought I was having had gone through his head. I was so comforted. People there will listen to your story as many times as you need to tell it." Kathy...
...It’s a fun regatta, aside from just the racing aspect,” said Harvard lightweight co-captain Patrick Todd. “There are just so many fans. Typically, rowing is not that popular of a sport, so it’s amazing that so many people come [to Head of the Charles...
...last night’s Republican Club discussion in Sever Hall, featured speaker Maj. Gen. Patrick H. Brady referred to Supreme Court justices as “kooks,” and argued that common American citizens should decide the flag-burning issue...