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...That’s the cave house dwelt in by young Salvador, alter ego for young Pedro, and his mother, played by a Penélope Cruz doing at times the full Sophia Loren....
...New Orleans’s Times-Picayune noted the inadequacy of the levees. In 2004, National Geographic vividly described a scenario in which 50,000 people drowned. The Red Cross feared a similar death toll....
...In 1959, the New Orleans Times-Picayune profiled a 17-year-old named Malcolm J “Mac” Rebennack, “a boy with 4,000 songs”....
...Williams undergirded these three novels with an extraordinary amount of research but without becoming bogged down by picayune details....
...Her relationship with Paul is tense not only because of the picayune and somewhat pointless stands they take over tiny deviations in an only-child’s daily routine — and which Markovits is an expert in detailing...
...“Not everyone can be new all the time. There is a value to institutional memory and a degree of consistency.”...
...She reflects sympathetically on the time when men “went away, to war or to sea”....
...It’s the skeleton key love always supplies: the one showing us that everyone we were afraid of before is only, like us, a lost soul hoping to find himself, just once or briefly, before time’s final tolling...
...Acts of prankishness become mini-heroic as “time” is literally stolen: the time it takes, thieved from hours of institutional regimentation, to become oneself....
...Mr Baquet received his start in journalism working at the Times-Picayune and then the Chicago Tribune, where he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for investigative reporting: his story on corruption at Chicago...
...Perhaps the film overextends itself: 80 minutes is a long time to be picayune....
...“You have two pure plays and banks can lend to each company,” Mr Moffett told the Times-Picayune....
...But apparently big crime arises around this picayune-sounding crookery, whereby cattle are illicitly fattened for slaughter and sale....
...From “Olympic-sized problem for G4S” in the Wall Street Journal to “No gold medal for security” in the New Orleans Times-Picayune and “London’s show of farce” in the Vancouver Province, the failure of the...
...This year’s jury included the novelist Michael Cunningham, the professor Maureen Corrigan and Susan Larson, who used to be books editor at New Orleans newspaper The Times-Picayune....
...But the shapes they take are becoming too picayune. Who cares about these little ingenuities if the big vision is no longer there?...
...ANew Orleans Times Picayune reporter’s visit to the upscale Zabar’s grocery in Manhattan this summer gave a silly lesson on truth in advertising when the “lobster salad” bagel he bought had a suspicious...
...But by the time the fourth body is being sliced and diced on the blood-slicked bathroom floor you think: haven’t current events made all this seem picayune?...
...One Times-Picayune reader wrote on its website: “Has anyone Googled ‘Tony Hayward spill minor’ to see what the CEO of BP is saying to the European press?...
...Seventeen years ago I was assigned the review of his book Diplomacy, which I anticipated would be an eye-opener about the culture of the craft; the ways in which momentous decisions can turn on picayune...
...As Ron Thibodeaux wrote in The Times-Picayune newspaper on Sunday: “Who among us here in Louisiana was not rendered heartsick by the sight this week of brown pelicans – our state symbol – coated in oil ....
...Readers of the Times-Picayune, the New Orleans newspaper, called him a “jerk” with a “toffee-nosed voice”, who should have been given a shovel or thrown into the sea during a visit to the oil-covered beach...
...According to official records requested by the New Orleans’ Times-Picayune newspaper, most of that went on overtime for senior officials, $12,000 went on paying for them to travel by helicopter, and $2,500...
...An editorial in The Times-Picayune, a New Orleans newspaper, castigated the administration on Sunday for appearing “timid” in its dealing with BP since the rig explosion....
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