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Abel writes like a dramaturge, developing character and conflict mostly through articulate dialogue that ping-pongs between her smart, if oftentimes deluded or flawed characters. This makes La Perdida as engaging as good theater. A typical scene pits Memo against Carla in a long argument about the purity of Carla's motives for staying in Mexico. It lasts for over five pages with Memo saying things like "You teach over-priced English classes to under-educated Mexican morons who buy into the imperialistic American model?" To which Carla wonders about Memo's real reasons for learning English. "It wouldn...
...Spanish puts the book at the edge of today's controversy over the purity of English. La Perdida includes a glossary for all the Spanish at the end, except strangely, a translation of the title. My crude Google-based research roughly translates it as "The Lost One." For a smart, involved and serious graphic novel read, La Perdida should be found...
SINCE THE CONCORDE landed for the last time in 2003, globetrotting members of the smart set either fly their own jets or discreetly rent them by the hour. For the rest of us, flying commercial has become something to be endured rather than cherished...
...Massachusetts native son fancied himself the future director of Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. He dutifully practiced the organ, but at that point, he definitely wasn’t gunning for the pulpit.“My friends would’ve called me a smart-ass,” he says. “I was not particularly pious.”It was his attitude that encouraged one of his professors at Bates to push him to do more. “He said to me, ‘You should go where people...
...Clooney (Syriana) and Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener) won in the supporting actor categories; Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote) and Reese Witherspoon (Walk the Line) took Best Actor and Actress; Brokeback Mountain was cited for adapted screenplay, Crash for original screenplay; and Brokeback?s Ang Lee for Best Director. The smart money even had the right over-under number on how many Jewish references host Jon Stewart would make in the award show?s first 30 minutes...