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Both affection and sympathy shine through Kureishi's ironic treatment of Omar and Johnny. His portrait of the assimilated "Pakis," however, is another matter: priceless if only for its scathing directness, Nasser's house is divided between traditionally attired and silent females and the Westernized (read: loud) and self-satisfied males. Nasser himself remains an important hair's breadth away from merely detestable because he retains a sense of brotherly loyalty and an affectionate nature--although he does deal in very detestable and profitable muck. The real villain is Nasser's right-hand man, the fully macho Salim, who smuggles...
...volume of an obsolete encyclopedia and a novel by Clare Boothe Luce." From Mexico Places and Pleasures: "One young man in an exquisite hat and beautifully made dress keeps circulating among American women asking for a household job which would include cooking, cleaning, dress- and hat-making." And this priceless piece of advice from Italy: The Places In Between: "One assumes that foreign ladies, English and Americans particularly, because they are tremulous, neurotic bags of bone reduced by sexual malnutrition, find all Italians irresistible. Gentlemen who agree with this premise are often to be found in hotels during festa times...
...entourage temporary entry, while making it clear that permanent exile in the country was out of the question. When the couple finally boarded the C-141, they carried only one suitcase apiece. Nine hours earlier, an Air Haiti cargo plane loaded with the family's wealth, including Michele's priceless wardrobe and jewelry collection, had left the country...
...with its own independent worth." But what is its independent worth if Rembrandt's masterpiece is not by Rembrandt? Though people who estimate such things promptly lowered its theoretical value from 20 million marks ($8 million) to about one-twentieth of that amount, what is one-twentieth of something priceless...
...filled moments, the battle, the politicking, and the arguing. His device of constantly returning to an imagined panel of historical researchers drawn from prominent Texans slows down the narration, and it can be skipped without historical loss, but as a view of modern Texas it will be considered a priceless gem when historians look back at the present from a time years in the future when Texas is little different from New York...