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...tale of an Indian servant who kills his boss, it's written with wit and panache and crackles with a kind of joyfully subversive energy. Yet it is also a shocking portrait of Indian corruption and social injustice at a time when the media has tended to focus on sunnier tales of the nation's economic transformation. Sitting beside Adiga in a taxi after the event, he told me that he had initially struggled to write the book in the third person and had then rewritten it in just 40 days in the voice of the murderous servant. Back then...
...fled poverty and famine over the last century and a half to the many thousands who have regularly quit the country in search of work right up to the end of the 1980s, Ireland's best and brightest have a long history of leaving in search of opportunity and sunnier climates. But a decade and a half of red-hot growth all but wiped out large-scale emigration, and Ireland has instead found itself a destination for immigrants from Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe...
...burlesque. But burlesque in the older sense of parody, travesty, impudent fun. There is humid sexuality at the start of the two-hour extravaganza (topless acrobat on a phallic pole, Madonna easing a whip past her crotch, dancers gyrating in auto-massage), but it soon gives way to simpler, sunnier images. For Rain, Madonna dons demure black; the look says, ''Listen to the sad ballad, the sweet harmonies.'' For Express Yourself, she's dolled up in royal blue bell-bottoms and a frizz wig, to pay homage to the gaudy innocence of the Cyndi Lauper era. The Wayback Machine keeps...
...home.” No, not if your mother is not there. And, even when my mother was in Cambridge, she would note that not everybody else was. That’s not “home.” Besides, “home” should be sunnier...
This semester, we’ve enjoyed predicting gloomy forecasts for the radio industry, but like Boston weather, the time has come for something a little sunnier. So, in honor of the coming of spring, we’d like to give you our semester-end round up of everything going on in radio that makes us believe, at least for the moment, that there are some clear skies ahead...