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...foundation in fact. And although it might not be quick enough for the busy individual who is its subject, Faster is a fast read. Gleick creates a page-turner through his use of suspense. His chapters come full circle. Gleick is very good at carrying the reader through his profound arguments about time and its affect on us. His style successfully makes his abstract claims obvious and accessible in the small number of pages of each chapter. At times, however, Gleick sidetracks onto tangents, as in the chapter "The Law of Small Numbers" with its many symbols and mathematical discussions...
...reason, it occurs to me, is simple and yet profound: America lacks charm. My sister-in-law, a single French welfare mother who lives in a beautiful Proven?al village with four boys between four and 18, all at home, seems to me, despite her difficulties, to have more charm in her life-the daily trips to the boulangerie and weekly ones to the market, the occasional glass of vin rouge with some fresh p?t?, the tiled roofs and stone walls of the village itself-than many a millionaire in my great home state of Texas. (Quelle horreur...
...price of admission to the Beatrice Street Y is equivalent to one New York subway ride. The profound emotions shaping South Africa come with no extra charge. The performance is in Zulu, but spectators with no understanding of the language can grasp the feeling. Evocative words such as "AIDS," "lover boy," "our parliament" and "Mandela" are at the foreground. Hope and gloom duel in the background. Isicathamiya is South Africa's blues...
...Matt Rees: Certainly. One detail that will have a profound impact on the domestic political situation occurred even before the government was sworn in. Sharon pushed through a law to stop the practice of direct elections for prime minister. In the last two elections, Israelis had been able to vote separately for the party to represent them in parliament and for the candidate they wanted for prime minister. That had created tremendous political instability by fracturing the political landscape, because people could choose the party closest to their hearts rather than being forced to choose between the major parties...
...meet editors. I smoked, basically, to begin my days. In the evening, I'd take valiums or halcyons or cercines or any of a number of sedatives to help me calm down. When I stopped smoking for a few days just to see if I could, a profound depression would come over me. The drab grayness of the world would become crushing and the boredom would seem ineluctable. Nothing seemed fun. Nothing seemed worthwhile. Every book was tortuously slow. Every song was criminally banal. Every movie crawled. The sparkle and shine had been sucked out of life so completely that...