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...tradition: the hegemony of the Russian Orthodox Church. Yuri smiles as he recalls that under communism, his parents were denied permission to build a house because it might be used as a religious meeting place. Under the new democracy? The same: "My wife, who taught Sunday school, couldn't rent a place for classes. My relative is a pastor in Barabinsk in Siberia. The local mayor told him to get out of town. He said, 'We don't want any religious dissent...
Lawrence Block writes shadowy thrillers about a recovering alcoholic named Matthew Scudder who knows a lot about the dark side of New York City, where he does enough private detective work to keep the rent paid on his crummy hotel room. Sometimes Scudder makes a point of saying that it's a nice day and that the sun is shining, but this never seems convincing. He's a night man, with a turned-up raincoat collar...
...Vietnam rent the nation because it presented the basic dilemmas of the cold war period: Was containment the paramount American foreign policy goal? Was it worth the risk of military intervention? Where? At what cost? There were no easy answers. There was certainly none of the unanimity that nostalgics now pretend there...
Lawrence Block writes shadowy thrillers about a recovering alcoholic named Matthew Scudder who knows a lot about the dark side of New York City, where he does enough private detective work to keep the rent paid on his crummy hotel room. Sometimes Scudder makes a point of saying that it's a nice day and that the sun is shining, but this never seems convincing. He's a night man, with a turned-up raincoat collar...
...Hermes . . ." all the way down to ". . . Valentino, Vuitton and Zabar." Instead of superhero lunch boxes, these kids will tote personalized shopping bags. And what about children cursed with parents whose taste in store names is simply too plebeian? On Geraldo, talk-show shrinks will discuss the trauma of low-rent names like Kmart Smith and Shoe-Town Jones...