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...drawing, Benton was going with his father to the local movie palace, where—since he couldn’t read—he got his first lessons in narrative. He watched the John Huston film “Asphalt Jungle” twice, never even leaving his seat in the theater, to try and make sense of the opening documentary footage. Benton called movies a “substitute for life” in his early years, and said that his record for number of movies watched in one day was seven. After graduating with a Bachelor...
...fully manifest themselves following Maria’s death. The fallout from her death changes the lives of her children in huge and unexpected ways, wrenching them out of their jobs and relationships.Maria’s death brings Gabriel and his sister Isabella to St. Petersburg, the seedy seat of their family’s history, plunging readers into the psyche of their sharp, cruel, solipsistic, and utterly absorbing father, and slowly pulling an abandoned son—the embittered, talented, consummately Russian Arkady—into the familial constellation. Docx has a stunning talent for communicating the essence...
...Orleans, Kimble Wright, and his mom led us around the Ninth Ward by car, where we encountered dozens of deserted stores and shopping malls. As the closed roller coasters of Six Flags rose over the highway, ghostly in the distance, Kimble said from the passenger’s seat, “Then Katrina, the ride of our lives came.” Homes were still boarded up; water damage gaped through the walls; and the grass, unattended, had grown high. X’s and O’s were sprayed on the boards—signifying not hugs...
Harold Ickes, Clinton's adviser, is leading her campaign's push to seat Florida and Michigan delegates...
...Fight All the Way to Denver Resolving the unfinished business of how and whether to seat the Michigan and Florida delegates could make the recent sniping between Obama and Clinton seem like back-fence chitchat. Florida's situation should be the easier of the two, because both candidates were on the ballot there and turnout was high. Michigan is another story, because Obama's name didn't appear on the ballot. Clinton's team is saying she won't agree to any resolution in either state that would dilute her delegate totals, a position that could lead to a summerlong...