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...embarrassed to be a policeman on that field seeing what I had to see,” said Evans in November...
...boys, the patient and kindly Nicola (Luigi Lo Cascio) becomes a psychiatrist. His possibly more gifted, but much more shadowed brother, Matteo (Alessio Boni), becomes a policeman notable for brutality, hasty judgement and grimly lonesome ways. We suspect he may come to a bad end, but we are not prepared for the shock and suddenness of its arrival. We're almost equally surprised when Nicola's wife, a gifted pianist, descends into the murderous radicalism that afflicted Italy during the "leaden years" of the 1970s. In tracing these two lives, director Marco Tulio Giordana effortlessly evokes many of the great...
...Zhongdian's trendsetter. THE TREEHOUSE Under Tibetan-Hawaiian management, the laid-back Treehouse, tel: (86-887) 823 1296, is an ideal place to sip tea and snack on sunflower seeds while warming your toes beside a wood fire. HAZEL BAR Run by a former policeman from Xi'an and his wife (after whom the bar is named), this friendly pub, tel: (86-887) 822 3210, consistently hosts the noisiest, merriest parties in town. The food is excellent, and there's an attached guesthouse. Don't forget your earplugs if your threshold for bar-room rowdiness...
...HAZEL BAR Run by a former policeman from Xi'an and his wife (after whom the bar is named), this friendly pub, tel: (86-887) 822 3210, consistently hosts the noisiest, merriest parties in town. The food is excellent; and there's an attached guesthouse. Don't forget your earplugs if your threshold for bar-room rowdiness...
...Barnard, Simon Brett, Ruth Rendell and the American would-be Briton Martha Grimes. The fall has brought a fresh crop, mostly from other hands. The styles range from taut police procedurals to literary romps, from old-fashioned puzzles to breezily constructed thrillers. These days the detective may be a policeman, a private eye or a blueblood amateur, as of old. The detective may also be a prying journalist, a homosexual, a woman or an eight-year-old boy. Among the best now on bookstore shelves...