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After a decade or so of nonfiction best sellers portraying the directors of large corporations as freeloaders or pawns of the ceo or distracted celebrities or public relations ornaments or assorted varieties of windbag, there is something almost touching in the fact that so many Americans still believe corporate directorship to be a calling requiring such a high level of skill and experience that the inclusion of a woman on a board could put the entire operation in peril...
Magic realism dictates, moreover, that they be archetypes: Grandpa (Anthony Quinn) is a lusty old windbag; Dad (Giancarlo Giannini) is an uneasy martinet; Mom (Angelica Aragon) is full of soft romantic sentiment. They also, of course, have a fierce, primitive, mystical relationship with the land that nurtures them. The stranger must embrace the acreage before he can embrace their daughter...
...stories to life, and Shea, a living, sweating man with clenched fists hanging out of his shirtsleeves, is the central figure of his own tumultuous life, not of some historical tableau. The author's use of language is a fresh breeze on a hot day. Shea's windbag of a father-in-law is a "self-important old streak of misery." And when Shea's sister-in-law is asked whether she loves a certain scamp and charmer, she replies, "What an idiot question! I could put the darling little fellow in my pocket and walk the earth's highways...
...unlikeliest stage event of the decade will occur next month in ye olde and quainte Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. The tourist haven's Shaw Festival, one of North America's bigger and better theaters and the world's most faithful keeper of the flame for the white-bearded windbag of Fabian socialism, is sponsoring a debate premised on the heretical idea that its patron dramatist should be outranked as a playwright by his colleague Harley Granville Barker. Although recalled chiefly as producer (The Doctor's Dilemma), director (Major Barbara) or actor (Man and Superman) of many Shavian debuts, Granville...
...that Rice's star, the blond, handsome vampire Lestat, is exactly the 200-year-old bloodsucker he claims to be. He was the dark eminence in Rice's first chronicle, Interview with the Vampire, and his monstrous self- fascination has taken over succeeding narrations. Lestat is something of a windbag, alternately luxuriating in the dark perfection of his sin and then writhing in rather stagey shame for his moral awfulness. This foppish introspection fogs the early chapters of the present novel. But just before the reader's eyes glaze over, the willful and impulsive Lestat tangles with a mortal...