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British newspaper columnist Decca Aitkenhead'sThe Promised Land (Fourth Estate; 217 pages). falls neatly into the second group. Touted as a non-fiction travel guide "in search of the perfect E," it follows Aitkenhead and her hubby Paul as they wander through America, Southeast Asia, South Africa and the Netherlands...
The power of the story telling owes much to the gift for language displayed by the show’s author, poet David Budbill. Budbill’s dramatic voice, expressed through short poems alternating with longer narrative vignettes, seems more reminiscent of the theatrical poetry of David Mamet than...
There was, above all, one of those transcendent Oscar moments that rolls history, grace and egotism all into one as only Hollywood can. A sobbing Halle Berry, the first African-American woman ever to win Best Actress, gave a moving speech, accepting the Oscar on behalf of Dorothy Dandridge, Lena...
And finally, in his relationship with the Jewish sportscaster Howard Cosell, Ali realized the ongoing dream of our society--and perhaps of the world--that people of different colors and religious backgrounds can disagree, taunt each other, support each other and at almost every point so purely recognize the humanity...
2 HBO'S SUNDAY NIGHT Some of its efforts were mixed (Band of Brothers) or complete misses (The Mind of the Married Man). But with strong additions Six Feet Under and Project Greenlight, returning stalwarts Oz, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Emmy-winning Sex and the City and an utterly transcendent...