Word: picador
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...second novel, The Romantic Movement (Picador USA; 326 pages; $23), the unforgivably young and unforgivably knowing writer, now 25, gives us more of the same, presenting himself as a Stendhal of the '90s dating scene. Alice works in an ad agency, Eric in commodities. They meet at a ball, go to trendy London restaurants, take a holiday in Barbados; gradually, obligingly, they settle into their roles like glossy-magazine archetypes in a masque. He's a self-contained realist, she a self-doubting romantic. He won't talk and she won't stop. Their ups and downs are delicately choreographed...
Alain De Botton, the unforgivably young and unforgivably knowing author of "The Romantic Movement" (Picador USA; 326 pages; $23) offers in his second novel a happy discourse on love and the nature of the words "I love you." De Botton comes to realize that these words can be a question, a prompt or an opening bid. "Light as a souffle, and no less addictive," saysTIME book critic Pico Iyer, "The Romantic Movement is that happiest of artifacts, a novel that smiles."Previous TIME Daily
Marciulionis is a bull, driving fearlessly to the hoop. He will shoot in traffic or pass the ball to 7-ft. 4-in. Arvydas Sabonis or three-point-shooter Rimas Kurtinaitis. Croatia's Drazen Petrovic, on the other hand, is a picador, launching shots like lances from all over the court. Those fans familiar with the Boston Celtics will also recognize 7-ft. 2-in. Stojko Vrankovic. In Badalona, at least, Vrankovic is an intimidating shot blocker. The Croatians are deeper than the Lithuanians, and both are more talented than the Australians. Says Croatian Danko Cvjeticanin: "We are the Dream...