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...writers themselves are intelligent, articulate women, but the interviewers' blatant fawning frequently makes the interviews seem trivial and stilly. Many of the women are interviewed in their homes or in cozy little cafes near their homes and Pearlman and Henderson spare no words communicating the picayune domestic details of their surroundings. Their voyeuristic glee at seeing Godwin's indoor pool or overhearing one of Fischer's personal telephone conversations is embarrassing. Italics and exclamation points abound. The opening paragraph of Pearlman's interview with Erdrich is only one salient sample...
...takes so little imagination to see what goes on the Porcellian or the Fly and so little effort to realize why they don't want to admit women. Guys, why bother with the pretense that there is something beyond institutional misogyny that would suffer if women were admitted? Spare...
Panjwin and Qala Diza, villages on the Iranian frontier, are smuggling centers where a vibrant and imaginative black market has sprung up. Though the area is under heavy snow, fast-buck gangs transport tools, machinery, even construction equipment to sell in Iran, returning with food and spare parts for cars and trucks. Almost all the eggs in Kurdistan come from Iran, painstakingly brought in by foot...
Despite the spare plot, Sweetback has a lot to say. Under a veneer of sex and violence, Van Peebles is telling the story of an alienated Black underclass...
...invasion would be the sale of sophisticated U.S. weapons to China. This time, Kuklinski reported to Washington, Brezhnev had grown more impatient, and a disastrous harvest at home meant that the Kremlin did not need mechanized army units to help bring in the crops and instead could spare them for an invasion. "Anything that we knew that we thought the Pope would not be aware of, we certainly brought it to his attention," says Reagan. "Immediately...