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...Works: Why We Look, Smell, Taste, Feel and Act the Way We Do By Dr. Sharon Moalem 274 pages; Harper...
...Gavin's first wife, Kimberly Guilfoyle, a former lingerie model, was a lawyer and correspondent for Court TV based in New York City. (Earlier, Newsom had briefly dated the singer Jewel.) Shortly after Newsom was elected to his first term, he and Guilfoyle appeared together in a Harper's Bazaar magazine spread - the publication declared them "The New Kennedys." But the couple divorced in 2005, saying the strain of a bi-coastal relationship was too hard...
...restructuring, initiates and affects a profound upheaval in the emotional and spiritual lives of its characters. As the vague connections between all six main characters begin to develop into close relationships, the masks slip from their faces, revealing what truly lies at their core. The most gentle characters, like Harper and Belize, turn out to have the greatest strength of mind and character, while characters that are accustomed to controlling the people closest to them, such as Joe and Roy, lose their power throughout the course of the play.In the end, a total catharsis has occurred in the lives...
...suit complete with a red and blue striped tie—reflects his concern with an outward appearance and reputation that gets Uncle Sam’s stamp of approval. Anna Smith’s turn as Joe’s Valium-addicted, sex-starved wife Harper is not quite on par with Breaux’s performance. She has mastered Harper’s childlike sense of wonder but emits too much humor and cheerfulness during Harper’s moments of despair. These qualities serve her well in Harper’s scenes of fantasy but detract from...
Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones (Harper; 984 pages) is one of those brutalist European maxi-novels that periodically come soaring at us across the Atlantic as if lofted here by a trebuchet. The last one was Roberto Bolaño's 2666, in November. You can recognize them by their seriousness of purpose, their wild overestimation of the reader's attention span and their interest in physical violence that makes Saw look like Dora the Explorer. It's as if these European writers are laughing at their prim American counterparts, with their fussy scruples, the way Sudanese warlords laugh...