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...generation. Corporal Leavitt, Termite’s father, makes his account almost a decade before the rest of the events of the book, an ocean away. His story draws to a close in South Korea precisely as Termite is being born in America. He has been shot in the spine and is dying in an underground tunnel, and his final thoughts are beautiful in their own respect. But his story serves only to explain Termite’s condition, as Leavitt’s dying vision becomes the telepathic stimulus for the images Termite draws. Termite’s back...
...lessen her spunk, the self-obsessed actress Sylvia Miles, and the simply bizarre hitchhiking, dumpster-diving Eugene Loh. The inclusion of Alford's elderly mother, who decided to divorce her second husband days after he was interviewed for her son's book, serves as the project's poignant spine. How To Live provides many answers (which essentially means it provides no answers), none of which are wiser perhaps than the one Alford discovers in a hotel bible: "And I set my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is grasping...
...offered to buy the collection 600 times before he sold it to me,” said Wronoski. “The price it sold for wasn’t even that high,” he said. “It was in poor condition—the spine was broken and there was a tear along the front hinge.” In fact, the other first edition copy of “Lolita” that Wronoski sold, which was in better condition, was priced at $65,000. The rare book business is notably complex and clandestine...
...although the vocals and lyrics are classic Morrissey. Another rare, early B-side included is “Wonderful Woman,” the story of a boy’s love for a criminal woman who has “ice water for blood / With neither heart or spine.” There is also an extended version of “This Charming Man,” a live cover of James’ “What’s The World,” and superb live run-throughs of “London...
...sense of the domino effect here. You put a bullet through a man's spine, all kinds of things happen. Tomas has bowel and bladder issues. Tomas has erectile dysfunction-28 years old, in the prime of his life. What we're saying with this film is that what you see with Tomas is a drama taking place behind the closed doors of thousands of homes in this country. Thousands. We're trying to show the reality of this war, which is the most sanitized war in our lifetime...