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...apartment, he falls for his immigrant Croatian nurse. The idyll is interrupted by the arrival on his doorstep of the title character from Coetzee's previous novel, Elizabeth Costello. An aging novelist of dwindling talent (a courageous invention for an aging novelist like Coetzee), she is determined to shake Rayment from his lethargy and have him for herself. She takes over his life, threatening his romance and his sanity. Rayment laments that he "never knows, with the Costello woman, when he is being treated seriously and when he is being taken for a ride...
...Oscar nod), Brink rails against righteous colonialism, the father of apartheid. "My God, my God, what have we done in the name of that dominion and for the sake of that subjugation?" he asks. "All those countless dead, now rising up to nod their heads at us and shake their fists at us in silent sorrow and accusation." No one knows that sorrow better than Zakes Mda, whose 2000 The Heart of Redness, about the assault of modernity on traditional ways, is the most powerful novel by a black writer in recent years. Mda's The Whale Caller, published...
...impossible combination: they became each other's steptwins. Their negotiations at times resembled nothing so much as the conflict they were trying to resolve. Mandela and De Klerk were at each other's throats even as they accepted the Nobel Peace Prize together. Rabin could barely stand to shake Arafat's hand on the White House lawn. Each of the settlements-in- progress shows that peacemaking is often as difficult and dirty, in its own way, as warmaking. The Men of the Year sometimes seemed to be elaborating a variation on Churchill...
...rapping is great, too, as they shake, growl, and air-drink their way to the end of the song. This track is probably the biggest hit to date for the still-fly Mafia and the video comes off as the crazy after-party...
...pack, take one of the beers, and shake it up as hard as you can. Then mix the six beers around so nobody knows which was shaken and put the beers in a circle. Each person picks a beer, places the can on their head, and opens it. If it doesn’t go everywhere, chug the beer. Otherwise, find a towel/friend’s head...