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John Lithgow barks to Harry Smith about his storied career, his latest children's book "
" and working with Katie Holmes on Broadway ...
AND TEXT. In "
," outlining his long television and film career ...
, like the end of days, is just a matter of time. It could be avian influenza, which he calls only one of a "number of bullets that could plausibly strike the modern food system. A sharp spike in the price of oil, a series of extreme weather events, an outbreak of some new plant disease, the depletion of some critical aquifer, all would send massive and potentially disrupting shock waves through a system that, despite advances in areas such as bio-security, is losing more and more of its overall flexibility and resilience by the week."
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" concludes that owners and builders of the ocean liner Titanic made decisions that saved them huge amounts of money and sacrificed more than 1,500 lives. ...
," accusing Barack Obama of seething with "black rage" and of being unfit for the U.S. presidency was kicked out of Kenya ...
" By Julian Barnes (244 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $24.95.)
," is so ingratiating that even readers who find themselves in fundamental disagreement with it may take pleasure from it, a good deal of pleasure. Of course confirmed city-dwellers, who want no more of nature than a Sunday stroll in the park, will find it a bore. But to armchair naturalists everywhere, and certainly to those who live in the country and seek a good part of their sense of reality in the natural world, her book offers much that is delightful, percipient, and informative. ...
" (Hardcover: 400 pages; Publisher: Little, Brown and Company) ...
