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...ornament, but rather a probe (or even a bullet) into the heart... FORECAST: Reviewers eager to pigeonhole Rabinyan's work will compare it to 'Like Water for Chocolate, but her fierce storytelling and the visceral sexuality of her characters suggest something more like Jeffrey Eugenide's 'Virgin Suicides.' Rabinyan is not yet well know in the U.S., but her move from George Braziller to Random House should raise her profile...
Tara’s journey is not the only venture into uncharted territory; the novel itself treads on virgin soil. It is one of the few recent books about the experiences of immigrants to the United States that does not read as trite or contrived. For the most part, this is due to Mukherjee’s ability to craft characters that maintain a fullness of personality and an independence of action that is only rarely encountered. Like any immigrants, Mukherjee’s characters find themselves in a new world faced with new problems. However, the issues with which...
Gerolimatos continued painting after this initial therapeutic turn. Her next piece was an image of the Madonna with tears rolling down her cheeks. “My friends told me that this painting reminded them of me. The Virgin is so sad, and I was still grieving over my mother,” she says...
...What moviemakers fear most is how lucrative and easy video trafficking could become on the Net. Movie88's Tan, who TIME tracked down through a Malaysian cell phone number, says he is the chief technology officer of Eternity Italy Ltd., a virtual company registered in the British Virgin Islands that is the holding firm for Movie88. Tan?identified by Taiwanese police as Tan Soo Leong?says he created a vast film library by copying DVDs to his computers. "I can get great movies in L.A.," he says, "Hollywood Video, Blockbuster. 20/20 has a very good, very complete collection...
...time when millions of people are seeking employment, I was sickened to read of singer Mariah Carey's $28 million buyout from EMI's Virgin label [PEOPLE, Feb. 4]. Where but in America would someone get this much money not to work? This must really impress the refugees elsewhere who are cold and hungry. Is this the picture of the U.S. we want the world to see? RUTH SWANSON Millersville...