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Fresh off last spring’s interview with H Bomb, in which he admonished Harvard women for giving men “free samples,” Mansfield was right back on his grind. Along with a tremendous riff about dining hall food, Mansfield drew blood on three separate battlefields: politically correct professors, the uselessness of benevolent activity, and the dangers of loveless sex. He’d been thinking about these things for a while, he told Doordropped—and all three take some inspiration from his scholarly work...
...that populate the pages, is reminiscent of White Teeth. But On Beauty does not try to duplicate either the breakneck speed or the hilarity of Smith's first book. It's also strikingly different from her 2002 disappointment The Autograph Man, which degenerated into an artificially clever, pop-saturated riff on the anxieties of being twentysomething, and cast a shadow over her early successes. She still can't resist dotting the pages with inside references to everything from Tupac Shakur to Harold Bloom. But this time she shows greater restraint - and self-awareness. In the past, Smith's chief flaw...
...Bono stalks a song as much as sings it, and the moment he takes the stage there is no doubt what his terms are: unconditional surrender. Clayton and Drummer Larry Mullen Jr., 25, have found some solid musical grounding, and the lead guitarist, the Edge, 25, can work a riff around to an epiphany...
Nazi Germany is Kerr's protagonist in four gripping tales. The latest, Hitler's Peace, is a cunning what-if riff on the little-remembered 1943 Big Three conference to set the rules for German surrender. Yes, it's actually thrilling. And it will make you rush to read Berlin Noir (out in paper), a masterly trio of mysteries starring ex-cop Bernie Gunther as he struggles with notions of justice in 1930's Germany, soaked in the seamy authenticity of Hitler's world...
...biggest laughsChris Rock got at last year's Oscars came from a riff about movies for African-American audiences. "Black movies don't have real names," he said. "They have names like Barbershop. That's not a name. That's just a location...