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...conviction of high-ranking officials in state and Federal government--the chief justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court, the Governor of Arkansas--and all were in connection with a business deal in which the President and the First Lady were involved. So, crimes were committed. That's pretty serious stuff...
Short answer: the good stuff. In The Preservationist (St. Martin's; 230 pages), first-time novelist David Maine picks on Noah again, and with good reason. The story of Noah, crowded with incident though it is, gets just four brief chapters in Genesis, and Maine has a terrific time romping around in the gaps between the verses, mouthing off in the somber silences between those Old Testament phrases. How does it feel to be 600 years old, as Noe (Maine uses archaic spellings for biblical names) was at the time of the flood? The Bible offhandedly mentions giants--what were...
This is serious material, and you cannot blame serious filmmakers--the movie was written by Jay Cocks (formerly a TIME critic) and directed by Irwin Winkler, producer of some of the best movies (Raging Bull, The Right Stuff) of recent times--for being seduced by it. But something goes terribly wrong in the execution. Kline suggests Porter's intractable snootiness but none of his perpetually boyish elan. Judd mostly simpers. The Porters had, it seems, a marriage of inconvenience, leavened in the movie by glam settings, the irrelevant appearances of famous people and, of course, the tunes Porter is occasionally...
...People have wiped stuff off the shelves, stolen clothes a number of times, that could be the reason they closed,” Williams said...
...wife offered to fly to Tucson and drive back with her, the reverse of how the car got to Arizona last fall. It wouldn't work, Gabby said. The entire interior of the car, with the exception of the driver's seat, was packed with her stuff...