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...fact, they aren't so much people we see in movies as people we know. They stare at the TV, pretending fascination with a game show as a way of avoiding either a conversation that's sure to turn prickly or a long night of sullen introspection. They offer old doggerel - like Eleanor Roosevelt's "Yesterday is history, tomorrow's a mystery, today's a gift. That's why they call it the present" - as eternal wisdom. The men in Snow Angels have the appetites of the philanderers they see in movies but not the suave patter; a cheating husband...
...Where the family goes doesn't actually matter, of course. Neither does knowing the ending before reading the book, which is drenched in unfaltering, sullen cynicism. Like most tragedies, the dark and demoralizing narrative arc of Mountains Painted with Turmeric is predictable - its heft relying on the inexorability of disaster to come. From the start, there's no question that things will end badly for the good, penurious farmer of "limited intellect" whose name, Dhané (or "wealthy one"), is a barbed irony...
...December the Mitchell Report on steroid abuse in the major leagues fingered the top players of the past two decades--slugger Barry Bonds and pitcher Roger Clemens--as having taken illegal substances. Bonds has dwelled mostly in sullen silence through the years of his charges. But Clemens, whose inclusion in the report was a jolt to fans, has taken the offensive, proclaiming his innocence against allegations by his former personal trainer Brian McNamee that he had injected the star multiple times with a banned steroid...
Accompanied by men more than twice his age, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari sat through his introduction with the downward gaze of a sullen teenager. But when it came time to speak, he looked up with the same large brown eyes that from underneath her headscarf helped make his mother famous, and which now seem to reflect the gaze of the world...
...look like callousness when millions of lives are at stake. Mbeki compounded his image problem, Gevisser argues, by not using the media effectively; his opponents' ability to get their positions across persuaded Mbeki there was a conspiracy against him, Gevisser writes, and encouraged him to fester in an "increasingly sullen and irascible isolation...