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Deibel and Hughes also replaced the restaurant’s old crocodile mascot with a zebra—“a horse with design gone wild,” according to Deibel...
Most campaigns begin the moment the previous one ends, and so this wild race, with its surprise ending, actually started quietly and methodically nearly two years earlier, in the weeks after Bush's presidential victory was confirmed. The Rove war room knows no armistice, and so in December 2000, when he hired Ken Mehlman, the key deputy who shares his devotion to the game, they started blocking out the map for the next election. Where had Bush done well in 2000? Where were vulnerable seats that could be picked off? And, most of all, who would carry the G.O.P. flag...
...nature vs. nurture: back in the '50s, when I worked with Lenny Bruce, he used to tell this story: An infant child born to a pair of brilliant astrophysicists gets lost in the woods. Raised by a pack of wild dogs, he finds his way back to civilization years later and goes on to graduate with honors from M.I.T. But a year after that, he gets killed chasing a car. ORSON BEAN Venice, Calif...
...style, yet he's careful to rebut the chief accusation made against his work: that it's frothy entertainment. "Many of my readers read my books three or four times, because my novels are easy to read," Murakami says. "But the stories are not easy to understand." In A Wild Sheep Chase and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, for example, he examines complex issues, such as Japan's brutal colonialism in the first half of the 20th century, while also portraying his characters' struggles to reconcile their hopes and fears with the lives they lead. In any case, popularity doesn...
...Outside it is winter. But here it is so hot.” And not just hot, mind you. Berlin’s infamous Kit Kat Klub, where much of Cabaret takes place, is also wild, raw and at times downright raunchy. It’s a place where women proposition men, and boys do too, where life tastes delicious and where wives and worries are left at home. Outside, however, Germany sits partially trembling and partially blind on the eve of Nazism. Ultimately, the political situation renders the inside less lascivious and more escapist; the Kit Kat Klub transforms...