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...This can mean telling people who are paying her money that some of their stuff is hideous. And it means pulling off some alchemy that joins materials, colors, furniture, walls into a unified whole called home. A place where people she barely knows will feel perfectly comfortable and justifiably proud...
...think because I went to a pretty white school, that I really don't look Latin, I don't have dark eyes, I never had dark hair, so I don't think a lot of people put two and two together. But I was always proud of my Latino roots and proud of my Irish roots. I never felt like, "Oh, I should be white, or all Latin." I am what...
...first meet Enid and Alfred performing the slow and futile rituals of married life after retirement. Alfred, reticent and principled, is waging a stubborn battle against Parkinson’s disease. His struggle frustrates Enid, a Midwestern mother of three grown children striving to maintain a fantasy of proud normalcy and prosperity in her own life and in the lives of her children. The Lambert children are not exactly cooperating with that fantasy. Chip is a former professor who was fired for having an affair with a student, and now leads an increasingly desperate existence in New York City...
...Fury is less teeming and wonderfully overcrowded with characters than many of his other works (perhaps due to the volume’s relative slimness—Rushdie says that he has been “trying to write a short novel for years,” and is proud to have finally succeeded), though there are still several juicy cameos: Schlink, the Jewish U-boat plumber (“Erect, wiry, with Albert Einstein white hair and Bugs Bunny front teeth”), or Beloved Ali the taxi driver (“Hey! American man! You are a godless...
...economy, patriotism is good for it, and so is the sheer simplifying philosophics of survival. How many petty problems seem smaller now, how many reasons small fears, are now swept aside forever? After all this, Americans have a thousand reasons to be afraid, as many to be proud, and as many to breathe the air and resolve to personally make the American Way - part liberty, part shopping - bigger and stronger than ever...