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Unless one is an obsessive collector of life stories, an incessant hunter of intriguing narratives, most memoirs fall flat. Even when the plot is fascinating, the style may be insufficient to portray it fully—often those who lead the most interesting lives are those least qualified to transmit the stories of them...
Italian authorities may soon hear from another defendant in the conspiracy trial. Turkish police last week arrested Bekir Celenk, a Turk whom Agca has accused of helping arrange the plot against the Pope. Until his reappearance in Ankara, Celenk, a reputed smuggler, had been secluded in Bulgaria since at least...
Keough denied a widely held belief that the company had brought out new Coke as part of a deliberate, Machiavellian plot to create support for the older product. Said he: "Some critics will say Coca-Cola has made a marketing mistake. Some cynics say that we planned the whole thing. The truth is, we're not that dumb, and we're not that smart...
Reading the names on the Buddhist tombstones, Kawamoto points out those of the families he knew. He keeps a plot of ground here for his own family. Living in Ono again, he is close to both the villages of his youth, though Kuba, like Ono, has grown considerably. The hill of the graveyard had to be cut away at the base to make way for a new high school. Growth is natural, Kawamoto says, but he regrets modern disconnections from the past. "Now the future is everything." Still, he believes that the world is in many ways better off than...
However exotic the plot, it seizes on a basic parental fear: losing one's child to drugs or suicide or a religious cult or ordinary adolescent independence. But Boorman, a 52-year-old wild child who combines lush visual sophistication with the oneiric storytelling sense of a Hyde Park ranter, will always opt for youth's reckless hurtle into the unknown. In his forest, the prime evil is civilized man, and "back to nature" is a great leap forward. So the father in this dizzy, rapturous adventure picture must allow Tomme to do his own thing; indeed, he must destroy...