Word: wonderments
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...Japan serenely sails. It makes you wonder if most of us have still not figured out the question of 1962, or if the answer to it is so radical that we miss it. Could it be that an old society is leading us into a postmodern age, one where the world of politics, something that we have assumed for 200 years was the wellspring of national success or failure, is somehow just not that important...
...Bush has glided effortlessly through this presidency without a false step - an American sphinx, although one whose very presence conveys intimations of wisdom. Sittenfeld takes full creative advantage of that intelligent vagueness, and her novel encourages readers to do the same. I wonder, for example, what the First Lady would make of Jane Mayer's extraordinary account of the Bush Administration's torture policy, The Dark Side, which I read simultaneously with American Wife. It is no small astonishment that Sittenfeld's portrait of the President and his circle made Mayer's horror story more plausible for me: suddenly...
...locals down to the Zayandeh River, with its exquisite arched bridges and discreetly entwined couples. A hop, skip and jump away is the Abbasi Hotel, housed in a former caravanserai. With its restaurants, fitness complex and teahouse - plus a courtyard styled like a traditional Persian garden - it's no wonder the city's beau monde flocks here after dark. Eager to rub shoulders with the all-too-rare tourists in their midst, they'll guarantee you leave Isfahan vowing to return...
Many folks in the rest of the country wonder why anyone would want to live in such a flood-prone place. Luke becomes visibly tense at the subject and responds, "It's a way of life," referring to living on the water. "The new buildings are being built on pilings. So you can take the flood. Wind, you just don't know. But everyone's going up," he says, referring to the homes along the bayous perched on stilts. "You just set yourself up for the lick, you know?" The "lick" is a euphemism for heavy flooding...
...Given Manchester United's dominance of the Premier League in recent years and the money thrown around by clubs such as Chelsea and Liverpool, it's little wonder that the chance to finally compete has made City followers happy. Boosted by the sale of lucrative TV rights worldwide, Premier League clubs generated a little more than $3.1 billion in revenues in 2006-'07, making the league by far the world's richest and a magnet for overseas players, coaches and investors who are keen to cash in. (Foreigners now own eight of the league's 20 teams.) But making enough...