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...employed his unique, repetitive writing style to illuminate a hidden world—that of fight clubs, sex addicts, televangelists, pornstars, and so on. One of the pleasures of reading many of his books is asking oneself if his revelations involving drugs, sex, bombs, and world history are actually true...
Beatrice and Virgil is a true oddity. Its subject is violence and the impossibility of describing it: violence is an atrocity that immolates language itself, turns us into dumb animals and brute flesh. But Martel's story is so arbitrary and oblique that its savage truth almost misses making itself felt. There may be no way to approach the unspeakable other than sneaking up on it with a winding story like Henry's and toylike nonsense characters like Beatrice and Virgil. But Beatrice and Virgil falls victim to its own paradox: speaking of the unspeakable is a dangerous game that...
McLaren went on to have successes with Adam and the Ants and Bow Wow Wow before ditching the bands entirely and becoming the true talent behind his own hip-hop- and opera-inspired pop tunes as well as a dozen other songs throughout the 1980s...
...true that CIA officers only have the skills that make them valuable to their secondary employers because of CIA training. If they leave, their training, an expensive investment for the CIA, leaves with them. However, the reality is that once someone has been trained, they own the skills they have acquired...
...support of her amendment, “The American people must have confidence that government employees are working in the best interests of the nation, not in their personal self-interest.” It’s a nice sentiment, and in an ideal world it would be true. But if Eshoo gets her way, the next time Robert Ludlum publishes a story, don’t be surprised if Jason Bourne is working full-time for Goldman Sachs...