Word: see
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...book "isn't actually about Islam, but about migration, metamorphosis, divided selves, love, death, London and Bombay." The sad irony, he said, is "that after working for five years to give voice and fictional flesh to the immigrant culture of which I am myself a member, I should see my book burned, largely unread, by the people it's about -- people who might find some pleasure and much recognition in its pages...
...garish, deadly world, living, as he puts it, "in the very pulsebeat of the tabloids." He freely enters Mob-owned nightclubs and elegant, exclusive brothels. When no one, including reporters or federal agents, can find Schultz, Billy is allowed into his presence: "It is spectacular enough to see someone in the flesh whom you've only known in the newspapers, but to see someone the newspapers have said is on the lam definitely has a touch of magic to it." The young apprentice also learns that "I had caught on with the great Dutch Schultz in his decline of empire...
Collins is captivating as an unabashedly ordinary housewife who wants nothing more than a bit of liveliness and unpredictability but fears it's already too late. She deftly evokes a woman without a mean or malicious thought who sees everyone she knows as a disappointment. She turns the slender plot -- Shirley's sneaking off to Greece for a holiday and her temptation to stay there -- into genuine introspection. It's easy to see why Collins, who originated the role in London, last month won the Olivier Award for that portrayal. Praise belongs as well to designer Bruno Santini, who makes...
...body was found in a snowbank,' " wrote her sister, Nancy McDonald, in a letter published in the Detroit News last week. "It's been extremely difficult for us to accept Caryn's loss and the way her body was found, but we, her family, did not need to hear, see and read the same fact for 14 years...
...little hope for reforming the way death is covered. "We have a commercial interest in catastrophe," admits Milwaukee Journal editor Sig Gissler. The most realistic changes that can be hoped for, agreed the journalists, are slight improvements in tone and treatment. Said Newsday columnist Sydney Schanberg: "If we see only five seconds instead of 30 seconds of ghoulish film, we've made progress...