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...Danielo, father of six and owner of a battered, windowless yellow taxi, was as easygoing as his sister. He had the hooded eyes and easy smile of a man whose greatest pleasure in life was sleep, something which, I would find out, he could do anywhere, anytime. He drove at walking pace, the better to be able to chat to friends and relatives we passed on the road. And when I queried the health of the ancient Nissan as it groaned on a slight incline, Danielo explained he didn't worry about things like shocks, door handles or windows...
...which Jem overhears Mr. Blake reciting: “I wander through each chartered street...And mark in every face I meet / Marks of weakness, marks of woe.”In her prose, Chevalier lyrically captures the prevailing mood of London as a lurid “yellow light from the pub staining the fog the color of phlegm.” Yet she has this darkness intermittently cut through by the explosion of fireworks from Astley’s circus, “burning bright in the night sky.”The explosions can have a terribly...
...more enticing. In fact, the combination of the two only makes me think about roaches infesting a decaying body. A pleasant lunch read, I’m sure. THEN WE CAME TO THE END by Joshua Ferris I wanted to run as soon as I saw this book. Yellow post-it notes clutter the cover. Post-its mean reminders of things that need to be done. And for an obsessive-compulsive-checklist-maker like me, seeing this book cover was enough to make me hyperventilate. Death by post-its, anyone? SHOPAHOLIC & BABY by Sophie Kinsella I literally cringed when...
...This year’s incarnation of the swimsuit issue, which was first published in 1964, features singer and actress Beyoncé Knowles on the cover, kneeling provocatively on a sand beach in a red-and-yellow two-piece bikini...
...amounted to architectural magician's tricks, erasing the old boundary between indoors and out. And the unearthly rays of light beaming from burning lime that transformed any actor on a stage into a shining angelic or demonic figure; the magic-lantern shows of Halley's comet; the new, exceptionally yellow yellow paints and bright red printer's inks, all mixed up by chemists in laboratories; the telegraph wires that sparked and blushed against the night skies like grapevines beset by St. Elmo's fire...