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...Naipauls, and the wrong one has become famous. Like most people, I encountered the wrong V.S. Naipaul first. This happened in the late 1980s, when my brother returned to our small South Indian hometown after his first year at a Californian university. Having left as a quiet, affable boy, he came back a very bad-tempered young man?and this change had taken place, we discovered, because of a writer named Naipaul, whom he had been reading in California. Each time we saw an overcrowded bus or hit a road with potholes, my brother would repeat Naipaul's line that...
...plot chugs on parallel tracks, with flashbacks set in Charles' childhood. The career scenes are shot in high-contrast graininess, the early ones in a pellucid sunlight that Charles would soon lose sight of. Those vignettes--his brother drowning as Charles stands paralyzed, his mother sobbing heedlessly on the boy's coffin--have an indelible poignancy. On one radiant afternoon, Charles, now nearly blinded by glaucoma, listens to and memorizes the music of a cricket, a clopping horse and, breathing softly nearby, his mother. "I hear you too, Mama," the child says...
...discounted religious fervor as Basayev's prime motivation: "He is a man of war." (Kazbek has also since disappeared.) The Budennovsk hospital siege - and the live televised negotiations with then Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin - confirmed Basayev as a folk hero back home, showing the embattled Chechens how a lowly boy from Vedeno could make even the Russian PM capitulate...
...action starts out on the sunny streets of Paris, France, with street vendors selling, artists drawing, and in a characteristically hilarious bit of self-reference, a puppeteer working a marionette to the amusement of schoolchildren. Meanwhile, a young smiling boy walks down the road eating a chocolate ice cream bar when he spots none other than Osama bin Laden and a group of his cronies holding a beeping, blinking metal chest...
...Their lyrics, more so than those of the Smiths, told more than a song’s title and frequently outlined rather complicated situations. Take the example of “Dalliance” from the Steve Albini-produced Seamonsters. Lyrics map out a simple story: Girl leaves boy for new guy, guy misses girl. But in the song’s raucous climax we find out that the actual subject is something much more specific...