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...book includes images of the white loose-leaf pages on which he jotted down the similes and metaphors from which his lyrics originate. But his range of talents doesn't include organization. Instead of revealing the inner turmoil of a twisted genius, these scratchings just seem like a jumble of non-sequiturs, like a word-association game played among asylum residents. (A characteristic sequence of "thoughts": Without Me, Mom, Let us Live, Violence, I Am, Kim, Hell Freezes, Kill You.) In part, he says, this haphazardness is by design. "Reading my lyric sheets even gets confusing for me sometimes...
...Eminem's story already, and unfortunately the narrative is crisper on the silver screen. Though sprinkled with anecdotal gems, this tangled history veers closer to "annotated picture book" than autobiography and crumples under the weight of too many half-baked attempts at introspection. The book's structure, it seems, was dictated not by laziness but by personal philosophy: he's not much of a reader. ("If there are no pictures in a book, forget it.") But he doesn't seem much for writing, either. Die-hard fans will be eager for the backstage access, but all others should take...
...years ago, much of Asia suffered an economic wipeout that makes today's crisis seem like a rounding error. In Indonesia, the currency lost over 80% of its value, long-serving dictator Suharto was driven from office and hundreds of ethnic Chinese were killed in a racist pogrom. Prices in Hong Kong slumped through five years of grinding deflation. The city's stock market dropped more than 50% while property prices fell out the window - down a staggering 70%. South Korea and Thailand suffered similar fates, with plunging currencies, collapsing companies and rising unemployment...
...factors that once underpinned this claim, however, do not seem as strong now as they once were...
PETA recently tried to advocate for the use of human breast milk rather than cow's milk in Ben & Jerry's ice cream. That doesn't seem very feasible. Erika Kohl, WESTFORD, MASS...