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...telling President Bush, "Look, we don't have the military manpower and the public support. You leave us alone, and we'll give you benevolent neutrality plus the use of our airspace and your bases in Germany." That would have earned him sour smiles in Washington, but not clenched teeth. Why this refusal to heed the insights of Diplomacy...
...rolling mountainsides of Asheville, N.C., this movie suggests, young men and women have nothing better to do than to try figuring out themselves and the opposite sex. Guys attempt make-out lines of numbing inanity ("Wanna see my teeth?"). Girls press intimacy on reluctant beaus (She: "I'm trying to be open to you." He: "Why?"). But neither sex has a monopoly on maturity. Having rented a seedy motel room, a couple gets into bed and ... has a pillow fight. Our culture may force adulthood on teens, but sometimes they still have to be kids...
...describes The Autograph Man as the antithesis of White Teeth. But both are true to Smith’s detailed, fast-paced style...
...problem with trash, as we all know,” she says, “is that you can’t stop watching it. It wouldn’t be so popular if it weren’t so tempting. Anyone reading White Teeth who’s watched British television can smell the sitcoms a mile away...
Smith has found, too, that fame isn’t exactly the same on both sides of the Atlantic. When Smith came to the United States after the success of White Teeth, she suddenly found herself expected to answer some of the most perplexing questions facing American society, such as how to end racism. In Britain, at least, “they don’t expect 21-year-olds to know that kind of thing...