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...Taiwan, including destroyers, antisubmarine aircraft and diesel-powered submarines, to counter a possible sea blockade by the mainland. But he turned down the most controversial request, for ships equipped with the advanced Aegis battle management radar. Although it was the biggest sale in years, Beijing's outrage displayed somewhat less bellicosity than it is capable of mustering. Bush, however, indicated that he might okay a future Aegis sale unless Beijing reduced its batteries of short-range ballistic missiles aimed at Taiwan. Although a few right-wing critics, already angry about Bush's "very sorry" letter for the spy-plane incident...
...launch of the Sputnik satellite. Don’t worry, it’s more bizarre and wonderful than it sounds, and the adventure leads us from Japan to Europe to the coast of Greece and then to the satellite itself. You need to be somewhat cool (and puzzling) in order to have the international following that Murakami does...
...accidentally drove it out of business”), and this debut has been getting not an insignificant amount of good buzz. Hopefully it’s as funny and original as Maddox and his conspirators seem to think it is. I plan to read it for its somewhat original premise and its seemingly healthy sense of self-worth and promising sense of humor. Plus, anyone who can get away with a thesis on adjectives in restaurant menus must have something interesting...
...scene is absolutely overwhelming in its contrasts, but at the same time, the spectacles presented are also slightly unnerving. Scenes of these now somewhat naturalized Latin expatriates bundled in bulky coats on a Manhattan midwinter day, are troubling because, just as the performers seem out of place without an audience, these people seem out of place away from their native homes. Once revered in their homelands, these musicians are relegated to the periphery of the cultural conscious in North America...
...times, Calle 54 has the feel of a music video sampler-brilliantly performed but somewhat contrived-but in the music's margins, when father and son Bebo and Chucho Valdes play a piano duet or when Chico O'Farril wanders aimlessly in the New York City night, the film becomes intensely real and touchingly personal. Calle 54 may indeed be Trueba's "way of repaying a debt of gratitude to Latin jazz," but for novices and the well-versed alike, it also serves to educate and foster a love of the music. Trueba has succeeded, for all the spectacle...