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...done it by worrying less about impressing his customers than about just letting them enjoy eating. He begins the meal with a canape of salmon tartare with red onion creme fraiche in a savory tuile that looks just like a tiny ice cream cone. What sounds precious is somehow just fun. Then, because he has the luxury of charging a bucketful, he solves the problem of your palate's becoming bored after two or three bites by serving five to 10 mini-courses of just a few gobbles each. The only big hunks he puts on the plate...
Pentecostal preaching is mannered. Jakes' eccentric pauses, coy glances at his audience and the occasional odd, Holy Spirit-inspired stutter that sounds like a skipping CD might normally mystify or annoy the nonanointed. And yet, somehow, they do not. Like Brando's mumbling or Michael Jordan's outstretched tongue, they are pendants to an overwhelming gift...
...concerned about who's pregnant on a TV show as we are about whether or not the temperature of the globe is going up. Our perspective is warped by this TV fantasy culture. One thing that worries me in the U.S. is this sort of mad attempt to somehow resegregate ourselves. There's some sort of strange fractionalization going on again. The thing that has made the music of America in many ways dominate the world is that we come from the world, and the whole world ended up here...
...like you're from Puerto Rico or something!" I don't know how I'm able to do that, but I know it has something to do with the Caribbean. It's just naturally in my blood. I think that carries out through all of the music I do. Somehow, you can always hear that little island influence...
...this is only his eighth novel, and he has received many of the highest literary honors in the world. His first world-class novel, Midnight’s Children, won the “Booker of Bookers” prize and established his teeming, magical and mythological style, which somehow never lost its sense of intimacy, nor its intense invocation of place. Seldom has a city been so strongly, affectionately and vividly portrayed as the Bombay of Midnight’s Children and the Moor’s Last Sigh. Rushdie has only relatively recently emerged from hiding following...