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...swimmer too far from shore. And emerging from the moment's desperation comes some logical form of rescue: a tow-truck driver, a voice from the radio tower, a lifeguard. But when the victim is safe and turns to give thanks, the rescuer is gone. There are no tire tracks in the snow. There is no controller in the tower. And there are no footprints on the beach...
Doerr breathes vitality into a flat-tire genre. The past few years have positively seethed with charming, Toujours Provence-like depictions of the rustic life of those quaint foreign folk. Authors tend to subscribe to the crude narrative conventions of culture clash and nation of contrasts, where faraway lands seduce the reader with their irrational, undeveloped, unhurried, unchanging, quintessentially un-Western ways. And readers, doubtless locked in urban sprawl and economic recession, have lapped up such escapist literature with alacrity...
Flashy brands like Chrysler's LH mid-size sedans have been attracting their share of tire kickers, but small cars for the budget-minded have been moving off the lots. Following the lead of GM's Saturn, whose sales have risen 25% this year, American manufacturers have continued to offer autos in the $9,000- to-$12,000 price range long after Japanese carmakers virtually abandoned the segment. In that thrifty category, sales of Chevrolet's vintage Cavalier have risen 26%, while those of the Plymouth Colt and Dodge Spirit...
Boston's AP bureau chief said he wouldn't hire me because as a woman I'd be "attacked on the streets of Boston" and besides, I couldn't change a tire so UPI would beat me out for the story. This inspired me to take karate because I wanted to come back and break this man's desk in two after I changed his tires, but unfortunately he retired before I could get there and besides, I was lousy at karate...
...achieve the title. A Larry Bird he never became. At 5 ft. 10 in., he sold insurance and financial services and never regretted it. He has a memory as rich and deep as the whole N.B.A. He'll tell the story over and over this week and never tire...