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...over. As arms specialists tried to guess what Putin meant, some experts pointed to a mobile version of the silo-based Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missile, which is expected to roll out next year. Others wondered if Russia was hyping a long-sought-after missile that can zigzag to avoid interception or one that can travel at five times the speed of sound. Both may be capable of slipping past Washington's national missile shield, which isn't up and running yet. Pentagon officials remain unperturbed. They suggested Putin's comments are directed to his domestic audience. Nuclear arms remain...
After a short introduction by Everett, Bloom and Dubble began to zigzag without a word across the floor in a seemingly pre-staged manner. The silence was broken as Bloom began to play on her soprano sax. Dubble mirrored the music with her body, looking as if she was being blown away when empty air blew through the barrel of the saxophone, and writhing during moments when the tempo quickened, as if she were the embodinment of the sound itself. It was only after a synchronized “Welcome” that the audience was informed that both...
...Zigzag Way (Houghton Mifflin; 159 pages), the connoisseur of displacement takes her sharp eye to Mexico, though all her main characters, as always, come from somewhere else. Eric, a mousy innocent abroad, has followed his grad-school girlfriend across the border and there runs into a fellow refugee, Dona Vera, who presides over a salon of sorts called the Hacienda de la Soledad, concealing her European past behind flamboyant displays of Indian folklore. In the third panel of the narrative's triptych, we travel back to 1910, when the British came to the area to exploit its mines and miners...
...hopes but wise to their illusions. And as Eric, a budding scholar of immigration, learns about more final passages, there is a musk of Lawrencian magic hovering around the social comedy. The terrain of Anglo-Indian confusion that Desai helped discover is now looking close to overcrowded. In The Zigzag Way, she stakes out new ground and so yields discoveries about places not found on any map. --By Pico Iyer
BOOKS: Anita Desai's The Zigzag Way is a tale of displacement...