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...distorted in the movie. He is even more interested in the need of both the Old World and the New to convert the other infidel and to sleep with the rich, silly American (who, the play suggests, will go to bed with any winner). As in Plenty, Hare is weakest when trying to show how his people get from one point in their lives to a radically different one and strongest when he hectors, beguiles, exhausts, persuades through his characters. Roshan Seth, who played Nehru in Gandhi, turns Mehta-at first a stone figure on the horseback of ego-into...
...narrator, Spencer Monroe Savage--who remains unnamed until the last page of the book--seems a contrived sort of literary ventriloquist's dummy for Theroux. Through Savage, the author indulges in his witty and merciless taste for characterization, which invariably portrays his subjects in their weakest and most unattractive light. This dispassionate and always slightly disgusted--sounding tone is familiar from Theroux's previous books, including his non-fiction. The narrator of The London Embassy always seems to be presenting a bland, agreeable face to the people he is speaking to, while in his thoughts--to which we are privy...
...Crimson was able to keep up with, if not nullify, a Panther offense characterized by disguising hitters and quick low sets. But it was the Panthers' stronger serving down the stretch that did the Crimson in. "Serving was our weakest point," Crimson Coach Ihsan Gurdal said. "We could keep up with them until 9-9 or 10-10, but each time their serves made the difference...
Aiding Chrysler, the weakest of the big three auto companies, penalizes those that are fitter and undermines the competitive principle. Darwin would not have approved of bailing out Chrysler...
...team that began just five years ago as one of the nation's weakest, the Crimson's playoff bid was enough knowledge to overcome the deep regrets. "We've come such a far war," Dooley said. "We know ourselves, that we've accomplished more than we ever thought we would. We don't need the playoffs to know that...