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...doing it worth so much travail? This now paranoid critic thinks so. Adair's translation is an astounding Anglicization of Francophonic mania, a daunting triumph of will pushing its way through imposing roadblocks to a magical country, an absurdist nirvana, of humor, pathos and loss. Go forth to your local bookstall or library, pay $24 for or borrow a copy of A Void, and savor it slowly. But stay wary and vigilant, and mind your ps and qs, to say nothing at all about your ... Aaiioouugh...
...have some of your dreams realized," she says, "doesn't mean you're necessarily going to be content." The hurt and the hope are evident in her new album's last cut, Shadow of Doubt, in which Raitt sounds like a Mississippi field hand, bent by age and travail: "Oh but Lord no/ Don't make it easy/ Keep me workin'/ 'Til I work it on out/ Just please, please/ Shine enough light on me/ 'Til I'm free from/ This shadow of doubt...
...hosts were not exempt from family travail, not even cross-country skier Vegard Ulvang, whose love of risk and three 1992 gold medals make him Norway's best-loved sportsman and its choice to take the Olympic athlete's oath. An American reporter reduced him to tears at a press conference by asking about the impact on his training of his brother Ketil's disappearance while jogging last October and of Vegard's fruitless search for the body, lost in snow at least until the spring thaw...
...FANS. In terms of record sales, Jackson's career has steadily plummeted since the all-time best-sellerdom of Thriller in 1982. But now the superstar with an abused childhood is something between an object of pity and a dirty joke. His travail could still end in courtroom triumph. It might also reveal tragedy, for Jackson and for children even more vulnerable than he. Then the circus will close down, and Michael's white clown-face will never smile again...
...stories in Strange Pilgrims are remarkable stylistically as well as thematically. As Garcia Marquez narrates in his preface, these stories had a gestation of almost twenty years. This long travail might have made his ideas stale, but instead they seem surprisingly fresh and unaffected. Garcia Marquez's touch is lighter and more collected than in his landmark novels, his style more restrained and assured. Gone is some of his characteristic flamboyance. He almost appears to liberate himself from the magical realism which he left as legacy and burden to the writers of Latin America. He veers towards surrealism at times...