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...tended toward "slight and major derangements." Her father, a hard-drinking depressive, leveraged one real estate deal after another with little money. "His idea of a relaxing way to make a payment was to drive to Nevada and shoot craps all night." The remembered details of family life yield vivid metaphors for her theme, none better than this: in a Sacramento house the Didions moved into in 1951, the gold silk organza curtains on the stairs hadn't been changed since 1907. They "hung almost two stories, billowed iridescent with every breath of air, and, if touched, crumbled." --By Christopher...
...President to go abroad on business-to check the construction of his Panama Canal in 1906-but a 21st century leader is expected overseas on a regular basis. Last Thursday, George W. Bush, an unenthusiastic traveler, began his third trip to Asia, where memories of past presidential visits are vivid-and where the footsteps he follows are sometimes those of his old man. His stops...
...stores," says Nick Sparrow, managing director of ICM Research, a British polling firm. Political parties "offer very similar sorts of policies at very similar sorts of costs." The trouble is, people aren't buying the muddled result. Ruling parties aren't riding high - but they don't have opponents vivid or tough enough to take them down. Schröder may be the most vulnerable of all; his handling of the economy torpedoed his popularity, yet CSU head Edmund Stoiber couldn't beat him in last year's election. Now Schröder is even less popular - though his latest...
Coming from Quentin Tarantino and RZA, the geniuses behind Pulp Fiction and the Wu-Tang Clan, one would expect the Kill Bill soundtrack to be unequaled in recent history. Indeed, the album is a great companion to the film, with songs that are vivid enough to nearly recreate the script...
...from speculation is tricky in Levy?s book, "Who Killed Daniel Pearl?"; he writes at times in the staccato prose of a hard-boiled novelist, casting himself as the central detective, and some of his embellishments about, say, what Pearl was thinking during his nine days of captivity, take vivid dramatic license. Though he provides few hard truths, however, he raises intriguing questions. During his many visits to Pakistan, Levy interviewed police, pored over trial transcripts, met with Pearl?s contacts and retraced the former reporter?s footsteps in Karachi. He writes that the hotel Akbar in Rawalpindi, where Pearl...