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...again while she fights to find a place in her father's world. As Etienne, Bacri is brutal, callous and beyond redemption. In The Taste of Others, Bacri's lovelorn character is cranky but harmless; in Look at Me, he's pure bastard. His young wife, Karine, and his put-upon assistant, Vincent, are prime targets for his temper tantrums and cruel sarcasm, but they've got it easy compared to Lolita. Dad invites her to a party and then forgets her outside; he takes her to lunch and spends the whole time on his cell phone; and when...
DIED. GEORGE WOODBRIDGE, 73, longtime illustrator for Mad magazine; of emphysema; on Staten Island, N.Y. Woodbridge, who had a second career as an illustrator of historically accurate military-history works, created witty, fine-grained caricatures of everyone from movie stars to anonymous, put-upon suburbanites for the humor magazine for nearly half a century...
Lucinda Trout is the quintessential New Yorker: put-upon, caffeine-addicted, rent-strapped and desperate to get herself the hell out of the city. A lifestyle correspondent for a Manhattan morning show, Lucinda makes her escape by way of a long-term assignment in Prairie City, a fictional metropolis deep in the semi-rural heart of the Midwest. "Everyone I'd meet in Prairie City would be both interesting and kind," she daydreams, "every conversation meaningful, every gesture sincere, every woman nonanorectic, every man tall and able to fix cars...
...people from Saddam's tyranny. But millions of Iraqis have already been liberated from Saddam - the Kurds of northern Iraq, who achieved a de facto autonomy from Baghdad after the Gulf War in 1991, and built a thriving modern Kurdish society that makes them the envy of their put-upon Kurdish cousins in Turkey, Syria and Iran. Ironically, a new U.S.-Iraq showdown threatens to end that sunny interlude: As long as Saddam remains in power, the Kurds have international backing for their, but once he's gone, the U.S. and its allies will insist that the Kurdish enclave rejoin...
...from Saddam's tyranny. But millions of Iraqis have already been liberated from Saddam - the Kurds of northern Iraq who achieved a de facto autonomy from Baghdad after the Gulf War in 1991, and proceeded to build a thriving modern Kurdish society that makes them the envy of their put-upon Kurdish cousins in Turkey, Syria and Iran. But a new U.S.-Iraq showdown threatens to end that sunny interlude: The irony of the Iraqi Kurdish condition is that as long as Saddam remains in power in Baghdad, the Kurds have international backing to live in as a de facto...