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Pete Townshend of the Who was exceptionally hard on guitars. Now, at 40, he proves to be tough on the autobiographical form as well. Horse's Neck is a sort of album, words without music, consisting of 13 impressionistic pieces drawn from the author's life and times. Each segment...
And so, To Bring You the Soul of America, I undertook a journalistic odyssey to determine the causes behind this obsession with all things green an lush (or smelly and insect-ridden for you urban purists).
The hero emerges through a series of vignettes connected to one another only by his obsession. It is no accident that Mr. Palomar bears the name of a famous observatory, for he "has decided that his chief activity will be looking at things from the outside." This sounds easier than...
In a nutshell, the storyline focuses on Detective Sargeant Stanley White (Rourke), a Vietnam Vet-turned policeman propelled by a Ramboesque obsession with the American military failure in Southeast Asia and a steely determination to flush out the undesirable element from what he regards as a cesspool of Sino-American...
Ballard's obsession with the lost ship had begun decades ago, as a kind of intellectual hobby. "If something's been written about the Titanic, he's read it," says fellow Marine Scientist William Marquet. "He knows her, inside and out." That curiosity received a boost three years ago when...