Word: unflinchingness
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Saying yes, and tackling the flaws in his election loudly and head-on, might be the most compassionate thing George W. Bush could ever do. Give his constituents the gift of unflinching honesty, and present his political enemies with the apparatus to defeat him. Certainly the Democrats would have one...
8 THE TOM GREEN CANCER SPECIAL (MTV). In the Year of Celeb Health--Dave's heart, Michael's Parkinson's--Green's testicular cancer was the most creatively rewarding affliction. Green took his gross-out comedy to a new level on an unflinching show that took quite a pair to...
A strong, instinctive stoicism draws a woman called Disa back to her Icelandic homeland to die. "Hope is the sister of self-deception," she says, knowing she has only one year to live. Yet this is not a morose novel but one lifted by love, friendship and cooking, an art...
Still, the strong first half of "Red Dirt Girl" makes a legitimate case for Harris' transition from gifted vocalist to artistic voice. Her yearning, lonesome essence has been further distilled in these ineffably sad songs of lost opportunities and broken dreams, especially in the title track, about a woman whose...
Still, Boss Cupid (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 111 pages; $22) offers a splendid introduction for the uninitiated. Almost all of Gunn's virtues are on display here: his playful metrical dexterity, his unflinching celebration both of beauty and of its transience. The subject of love crops up repeatedly in the book...