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...complete catalogue of feminine insecurities Prager first takes the reader to 13th-century China, to the palace of the prefect Lord Guo Guo whose daughter Pleasure Mouse is about to have her feet bound. Pleasure Mouse is a lively six-year-old who, while romping through places like the Stream of No Regrets and the Bridge of Piquapi Memory, discovers the terrible truth about her impending rite of passage. Of course familiar pressures override her objections to a life of crippled submission: in the end she must choose between such a life and a kind of mystical suicide. That...
...cerie fight: As we worked cottontails, their coasts ablaze darted out of the burning grasses. A steady stream of flashing lights came down the highway and every few minutes helicopters skimmed overhead to land in the empty field by the market. In the distance like far-off bombs--we could hear mobile homes exploding as their gas tanks caught fire...
...stream of his criticisms to foreign diplomats and others in the U.S. and in Europe had reached our ears. His remarks had particularly infuriated Vance, so I asked Kissinger to come by for a talk to work out our differences. Kissinger said that some of his published criticisms had been taken from interviews given prior to the hostage seizure, that he would avoid similar comments during the crisis. After this conversation, things were better for a few days-then reverted to their former state...
...before. The media have spent much of the last ten years waging an all--out campaign attempting to expose cults and the bizarre processes by which they transform normal kids into zombies. Ranging from candid autobiographies of ex-moontes to last year's Ticket to Heaven, the steady stream of exposes has touched a popular nerve. Yet concern has reached a threshhold level. What the market needs now is a movie that reveals the cure, and not just the prognosis...
Regardless of its risky commercial nature, Nebraska represents a brilliant accomplishment. From his first 1973 release--the stream of consciousness, Dylanesque Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.-- to the spare The River in 1980, he has continually relied more heavily on the characters and moods he creates, decreasing the importance of the music accompanying them. Springsteen fully realizes his role as a songwriter and chronicler of modern day America in his new album. In this raw, folk style, he actually produces a work offering many of the benefits of his long-desired live album. Recorded in his own basement...