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...South was a revelation for Breitbart. Southerners, whom he'd assumed from their depiction on TV to be Neanderthals, were warm and smart and less neurotic than Californians. The social life at Tulane was splendid. "I was a drunk," says Breitbart, who estimates he spent five nights a week at New Orleans bars with fellow Delta Tau Delta fraternity members. The classroom experience was less satisfying. "I didn't read Mark Twain," he says. "I read critical theorists. I graduated with a degree in nihilism and nothingness...
...ones that survived offer something no store can. "The sweet-potato vendor conveys the feeling of winter," says Seiko Yamazaki, who researches consumption trends at the Dentsu Institute, part of the Tokyo-based ad agency. "You hear his song and it makes you feel warm. You imagine eating this piping hot potato." (See the best pictures...
...these days - not just commercial fare but also the supposedly more adventurous work off-Broadway - is that they are too simple: the characters too familiar, the stories too formulaic, the messages too spoon-fed. Donald Margulies' new Broadway offering, Time Stands Still, to take a typical example, won warm praise from most critics, but I found its alternately jokey and sanctimonious portrayal of a photojournalist and her war-correspondent boyfriend one giant media-friendly cliché. And I had to laugh at New York Times critic Ben Brantley's praise of Next Fall, Geoffrey Nauffts' new comedy-drama about...
...from that negative press sprang numerous bad-car jokes, many of which you feature in your book. Do you have a favorite? I like the one that goes: Why does the Yugo have a rear-window defroster? So you can keep your hands warm while you push it. These aren't jokes I had a hard time collecting. They're everywhere. But with a lot of these jokes, you could simply [substitute] Pinto or Fiat. There's something about cars that we love to goof on. People love driving high-status cars and love goofing on low-status cars...
...praised Domoslawski's work for its honest portrayal of the man. "I find that the author tries to be fair, allowing many different voices to speak," British historian Timothy Garton Ash wrote in the Guardian newspaper. "He captures the Ryszard I knew, starting with a brilliant evocation of his warm, nut-brown, disarming smile ... But this book is the protracted cry of a worried and even a disappointed disciple - one who, in his nearly three-year journey of investigation, found things that deeply disturbed him." (See more about Ryszard Kapuscinski...