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...Coixet has a tendency to linger on some of her scenes, giving them an unnecessary, darkly portentous quality. Some of this story's effectiveness derives from the fact that even severely threatened life often goes waywardly forward, immune to portent. There's also a non-Rothian reconciliatory note - a sort of emotional consolation prize - in Kepesh's relationship with his awful son - that I could have done without...
...diaries will be published as a sort of a blog, with entries added daily, exactly 70 years after Orwell wrote them. Running from 1938 through 1942, the diaries cover the early days of World War II as well as Orwell's travels in Morocco, where he recuperated from injuries he received in the Spanish Civil War. There's also a lot about chicken farming...
...unmuffled bikes again sounded its response, filling the air with exhaust and making the ground quake. It was McCain's sort of crowd: heavy with vets and drunk with freedom-loving fervor. In the past, the Arizona Senator might have followed up with some "straight talk" or bad jokes, the informal shtick that won him New Hampshire twice. But the newest version of candidate McCain does not dillydally, soft-pedal or claim to live outside politics-as-usual. He hits hard and on message--one focused squarely on his opponent, the political phenom Barack Obama...
...property of the Vermont house is a large rock, the subject of family lore: in the '70s, Solzhenitsyn sat his sons astride the rock and told them that someday it would turn into a flying horse and take them back to Russia. It was the sort of fairy tale you might expect a writer to tell his kids, but this one came true...
...find sponsors to send two Team Premier members to the WSOBP next January. "We don't fold underneath the pressure," the business major says of his team's beer-pong dominance. "Some people get their heart rates up when they get to the last cup, whereas we just relax." Sort of like an athlete getting in the zone--or getting a buzz...