Word: vortex
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Fury’s placement in the midst of the vortex of New York is the most immediately obvious change from Rushdie’s previous works. Malik Solanka, the novel’s protagonist, has, like Rushdie, recently relocated to New York after many years’ residence in England. It rapidly becomes clear that Solanka is an unashamed alter-ego to Rushdie; both have been married twice, both attended Cambridge, both were born in Bombay. It is not unreasonable to assume that the fury of the title, a fury with the ever increasing pace and inhumanity of modern...
...Whatever the merits of the case, the merest hint of a HotSync problem was enough to make my mind reel. For more than eighteen months now, ever since my Filofax got sucked into the vortex created by a cinema seat and my chronic forgetfulness, my Palm V has been my personal religion. Not only do I have every single piece of information important to my life stashed in there, I also have it regularly backed up on my PC for safekeeping. HotSyncing is so supremely simple - stick the Palm in its cradle, press a button, and you're done...
...Ariel Sharon, Yasser Arafat and George W. Bush are reluctant companions in a drifting rowboat that's picking up speed. But while the alarming acceleration of the cycle of Israeli-Palestinian violence endangers the political interests of all three, they appear unable to stop the drift back into the vortex...
...often monstrous job. Raised in the belief that their nation fought always and only for freedom and sent to Vietnam ostensibly to protect its people from an invading force of communists from the north, Kerrey and his men - like hundreds of thousands of others - found themselves in a moral vortex. While the politicians in far-off Washington never had their illusions challenged by daily reality, those sent to do the fighting were quickly apprised of the fact that for many South Vietnamese, the invaders were not the North Vietnamese, but the Americans. And often they found themselves in situations where...
...country of 1.2 billion people is in a perennial state of crisis as it lurches through an epic transition to capitalism whose attendant social traumas threaten to literally tear the country apart. Millions of people will lose their jobs and a known way of life, cast into a Darwinian vortex of social uncertainty. And in their rage, they're increasingly willing to take to the streets, or sign up with what Beijing sees as dangerous millennarian cults. Accessing the World Trade Organization and integrating itself more completely into the international economy demands that Beijing accelerate rather than ease the pain...