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...worry that young people are neglecting the blues? No. I think that the blues is in everything so it's not possible to neglect it. You hear somebody go "Ooh ooh oooh" and that's the blues. You hear a rock-'n'-roll song. That's the blues. Somebody playing a guitar solo? They're playing the blues. It's more popular than it was because the blues is in everything...
...dubious sort who limits all praise and wields a sharp claw. Mother to four in Dahl's story, here she has only one kit, Ash (Jason Schwartzman), who is petulant, undersized, uncoordinated and insecure. "You're supposed to be my lab partner," he says to a comely young fox named Agnes, who is distracted in their biology class by the Foxes' glamorous houseguest, Ash's cousin Kristofferson (voiced by Anderson's brother Eric). "I am," Agnes protests. "No you're not," he scolds. "You're disloyal." It's a hilarious moment, but perhaps only if you're familiar with...
Archie floats serenely above the new racial order, buoyed by his belief in the power of the coin toss. But Samad, confronted with a hostile, foreign culture and a young, indifferent wife, retreats into what he thinks he knows best: his own culture and religion. Smith makes it clear, however, that the latter—already irrevocably changed by his life in England—is reaching for a past that never existed...
Samad and Archie’s stories, as well as the stories from their long-suffering young wives’ points of view, make up the first and best half of the book. But “White Teeth” changes once Smith takes up the mantle of the new generation, the products of cross-cultural fertilization. Smith provides a snapshot of Archie’s daughter Irie writing feverishly in her diary. Her depiction of overwrought adolescence is pitch-perfect: “8:30 P.M. Millat just walked in. He’s sooo gorgeous but ultimately...
...have gotten snared in legislative gridlock. Torres argues, however, that the rules are ambiguous and that international labor laws recognize sex work as legitimate employment. Further, prostitution zones have long been tolerated along some parts of the Mexico-U.S. border, providing havens for gringo truck drivers and young Texans looking to lose their virginity...