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Ford's method is familiar: we luxuriate inside Bascombe's head; treat ourselves to his readings of the headlong, clattering muchness of U.S. life; enjoy the precise registers of his melancholy. A lot happens in this book, including a bombing at a hospital, a romantic crisis and an abrupt slide into chaos, yet it doesn't have much of a narrative arc. Still, there's nothing like a few days of life seen through the eyes of an exemplary sufferer to give you a glimpse of what living is all about...
...relentless mud slide of insurgency and civil war in Iraq is leading to unacceptable strategic disaster for the U.S. There appear to be no viable paths to follow in order to avoid it. Neither "staying the course"--whatever that Bush strategy now means--nor the Democrats' idea of exiting by timetables offers a semblance of success. Both approaches produce only nightmares: general chaos; Iraq's center taken over by terrorists emboldened by victory over America, their pockets bulging with Iraqi oil money; southern Iraq controlled by pro-Iranians or Iran itself; and Iraq's neighbors picking at the nation...
GEORGE ALLEN, WE MISS YOU Polls show that Virginia Senator George Allen has halted his slide. He's now in a dead heat with his opponent. That foot in his mouth must keep him from saying anything even stupider. But the month is still young...
...self-referential, show-about-a-show device has become the easiest and most insular of Broadway crutches (see The Drowsy Chaperone or Martin Short's Fame Becomes Me). As good as A Chorus Line was, you could also consider it the start of the Broadway musical's long slide toward irrelevance. Who wants to relive that moment...
...history repeating itself? That’s the worry of sporting fans across the five boroughs. Subway Series, Bubway Series. Will the Lions, after winning their first two games for the second straight year, suffer another debilitating eight-game slide to close it out? Or can Big Man Wilson right the ship...