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One thing he did was teach a college course on the theme of failure in the American novel. Not so coincidentally, Carpenter's Gothic is about losers in a competitive society. Gaddis reveals his characters in snatches of dialogue: "--Will you listen to me? Trying to tell you they're...
But McEwan also has much wider matters in mind, like happiness, family and work in a world in which life is a brief interval before the extinction of death. "I don't believe in God," McEwan explains softly. "But the world is just as warm, as rich, if not warmer...
Judy Garland lived to the ripe age of 47 before the pills and fame took her down. But even at 25, in this genial 1948 Irving Berlin songfest with Fred Astaire, there was an eerieness to her charisma. Garland is visibly depleted, her voice often reedy, her teen sweetness now...
Decker, who received a summons to appear in court on the night of the incident but was not arrested, said she suspects her race was a factor. Both she and Mayer are black.
The varied backgrounds of the suspects hint at the scale of the problem. Among those arrested was a Queensland man alleged to have been using local children to make his own pornography; also under investigation were four Queensland police officers, one of whom killed himself after being served with a...