Word: turmoil
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...says the turmoil convinced her to abandon the ivory tower...
...same turmoil that made the class of 1947's experiences so rich and diverse also made it difficult for its members to know each other...
...this has come at a heavy price. Fogerty's wondrous new album, Blue Moon Swamp (Warner Bros.), follows a decade of anger, frustration, fear and hard-won resolution. But you don't hear the turmoil that went into the making of these songs. Instead you feel the confidence and ebullience of an artist renewed, covering the ground at the height of his power, even if the album's 12 tunes work out, on average, to one every 10 months or so. Ask him why the album took so long, and Fogerty, 52 this week, has an explanation as honest...
...turmoil attending Zaire's galloping insurgency against Mobutu has obscured the wider change. With Museveni as its godfather, this realignment of Africa's old order tends to be Anglophone in its international voice, pro-American in its diplomacy and attuned to Adam Smith in its economics. Says Barnett Rubin, an official at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York: "The Zaire rebellion has become a trans-Africa struggle. It's very messy, but the prospects for better governance lie with these newer forces...
...witty and highly readable Monkey King also deals with mental illness, mysticism and sexual abuse. The narrator, 28-year-old Sally Wang, is a Chinese-American woman who has just suffered a mental breakdown. The book's power comes not from some wild psychological portrait of a mind in turmoil but from its careful detailing of Sally's life at the mental institution in which she attempts a recovery. Sally's family history is also nuanced and believable; small observations add up. Recalling her childhood, Sally says, "Because my parents had not been prepared for a girl...