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...being placed under judicial investigation is one step from being formally charged. But Messier said in March that he would welcome such a probe because it would enable him to defend himself; the formal declaration allows him access to all the evidence collected by the two magistrates. The sight of Messier in custody inevitably provoked feelings of schadenfreude - after all, in his glory days Messier lived in a swank Manhattan penthouse bought with Vivendi's money. Yet some of his critics are arguing that he's not the only problem. Whether or not he's guilty of criminal wrongdoing, they...
...Bernières has lost sight of what made his last book a smash: a yearning, forbidden relationship between two heroes. Instead, he gives us a dizzying flock of principal characters
...Bernières has lost sight of what made his last book a smash. It wasn't the exotic locale or political weight; it was the yearning, forbidden relationship between the two heroes, the betrothed Pelagia and the enemy soldier Corelli. De Bernières is an ardent storyteller, but not a good one. His structure is all over the place. He has said that he writes chapters out of order, as and when he feels like it, only later fitting them all together - and it shows. But what he can do is evoke the magic of the moment...
...catcher would have to turn all the way around [to receive the sign] and the umpire’d be in the way,” Walsh said. “I was never able to sit in the dugout in my nine years to be in sight of the catcher. I’d have to be up the line...
...wasn't a pretty sight. Tousled and bloated, he was drunk much of the time, playing the buffoon and getting into fights at bars and parties, making crude passes at women and cadging money and favors that he rarely repaid. As Andrew Lycett recounts in Dylan Thomas (Overlook Press; 421 pages), he spawned bad debts, pilfered from and vandalized homes he stayed in, and insulted and embarrassed the people who tried the most to help him. It wouldn't be long before he died of alcohol poisoning in New York City...