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...four of her novels in Hawaii, yet none are likely to be promoted by the local tourist bureau. In her latest work particularly, the haunting yet hopeful Father of the Four Passages (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 233 pages; $23), the author seems impervious to her state's natural splendor, focusing instead on the blighted emotional landscape of her characters. Chief among them is Sonia Kurisu, the youngest daughter of a Japanese-American family living in Hilo. After a fraught childhood, Sonia stumbles through addictions to drugs and the men who provide them and undergoes three abortions before giving birth...
...response to Ross Douthat's column, "Looking Backwards" (Editorial, Jan. 17): Somehow I doubt that people back in 1900 were walking around thinking (in French), "Gee, the culture today is positively glittering, on par with the Italian Renaissance, and perhaps even comparable to ancient Athens in breadth and splendor...
...here's where the pessimism comes in, folks--a hundred years ago, Paris and all the West possessed a thriving, glittering cultural life, one that vied with the Italian Renaissance and even ancient Athens in breadth and splendor...
...President dies twice, the first time when taking leave of the White House, with its massive power and all its trappings--the marble splendor, the world-class chefs, the Navy stewards bringing your Diet Coke on a silver tray. A temperature-perfect limo waits at the door. You have intersection control. Barbra Streisand croons just...
...year, a new you, a new calendar. Be bold. No more adorable kittens or Far Side cartoons to count the passing days of the year. How compelling is a Filofax compared with the largely unknown splendor of "Beautiful Women and Trophy Fish" offered in the Angler's Fantasy calendar? If you like your beefcake with English muffins, try Prime Cuts: British farmers in the buff, with naughty bits cleverly concealed by corncobs or the strategically clutched farm animal. And for those who feel the need to heed a special call to nature, sit down with Outhouses of Alaska...