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Daniel Craig plays Bond now, and his turn in Casino Royale in 2006 hit the reset button on the franchise. Like the Christian Bale Batman Begins, the Craig Casino showed a young man taking his first steps toward superhero status. He was stern and ferocious, similar to protagonists in the grittier, glummer, more violent action-adventure films of the past few years. The new 007 was the ultimate fighter, not the ultimate lover. And like Jason Bourne, who woke up one day having forgotten his identity, the Bond series acquired a selective amnesia that erased whole areas of the franchise...
...novel that any critic could describe as brisk or taut. (Not like all those other brisk, taut 898-page novels.) Bolańo is addicted to digressions, unsolved mysteries and seemingly extraneous details that actually do turn out to be extraneous. He loves trotting out characters we will never encounter a second time--a habit that can be exhausting. And whenever a character falls asleep, the reader should prepare to hear about his dreams...
...better. After the 1952 election, Harry Truman wrote in his diary that Eisenhower was being coy about cooperation: "Ike and his advisers are afraid of some kind of trick. There are no tricks ... All I want to do is to make an orderly turnover." When it was Eisenhower's turn, he was determined to handle things better, and to their mutual surprise, he and Kennedy impressed each other when they met at the White House. The young President later found himself relying on Eisenhower for both private guidance and, after the Bay of Pigs fiasco, some public cover...
Mellone added that a “striking architectural feature”—such as a pedestrian bridge—should be incorporated in order to turn Barry’s Corner, which is currently an unremarkable intersection at North Harvard St. and Western Ave., into an Allston landmark...
...Normally columnists will warn about “trap games” in which good teams mail it in against seemingly overmatched opponents, which in turn take advantage of this sluggishness and pull off an upset...