Word: spaghetti
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...Diesel: "Little Rock, 1873" The fabric of jeans ads is usually interwoven with wit. But Italy's Diesel sews up the category by stitching outrageous, self-referential irony into the imagery of a spaghetti western. A filthy, overweight gunslinger swipes candy from a little girl, spits on a saloon floor and kicks a dog before shooting dead the Diesel-clad hero. Yes, nice guys do finish last...
...wasted life" may seem undisciplined and chronologically impaired. In fact his memoir is cunningly designed for maximum suspense and beaucoup laughs. Going on 67, Barney has total recall of old grudges, past loves and 40-year-old hockey scores. But ask him what he uses to strain spaghetti and he goes blank...
...school, as we get more and more on each other's nerves, try to smile at that annoying kid in your class. And if you see me on the lunch line, tap me on the shoulder and say hello. I'll be the one in front of the spaghetti...
...conversations. But what about all the little interactions, the unintended ones? A person is unlikely to remember the guy whose toes he crushed as he squeezed his way into lecture late, or the girl who groaned behind him in the lunch line as he carefully selected individual strands of spaghetti, or the student he interrupted to make a comment in class. Yet to each of those people, he has just defined himself as inconsiderate, selfish and irritating. And if he interrupts the same student again, or if the same person lands behind him twice during his little spaghetti ritual, then...
...Dellio's success that Japanese writer Haruki Murakami's The Windup Bird Chronicle, a hefty 611 page work of near genius, probably won't get the attention that it deserves. Although it spans a comparatively short six months in 1984, beginning with a Japanese thirty-something making a spaghetti breakfast to the beat of Rossini's "The Thieving Magpie," The Windup Bird Chronicle is a noirish, tragi-comic epic worthy of its own praise dictionary. From a bizarre story of the thirty-something's marital and spiritual crisis, Murakami's novel kaleidoscopes out into an exploration of post-WWII Japan...