
Civility
The gut root of the detestation was not Ahmadinejad’s views on Israel, nuclear weapons, gays, or the Holocaust.

My dollar’s lifetime
The dollar traded at 625 to the lire. The number rarely changed in the 1960s.

On Chesil Beach
A postwar one-night (marriage) stand goes deeply awry, but that's really the least of it.

Worms
I bought syringes from the local pharmacy and pumped poison into the wood-wounds.

Phosphorus and Hesperus
Rory tells Dee stories about the times young Catafalque visited his mother-to-be, Blaze. They whispered in flames.

The Tyger
Carmen ate the prettiest rose in the world and then just then the great change of heaven occurred.

Blindness
Among the finest human condition metaphors of recent time, Saramago's conjures sudden mass blindness to captivating effect.

World Trade Center
A mine-shaft disaster flick throttled forward to encompass 9/11.

Lonely Hearts
Though vampy and distasteful, Salma Hayek's killer Beck is skin deep.

Domino
Knightly and Rourke walk the walk, but this bounty hunter biopic is smoke and mirrors.

Manning’s show
Unlike their French neighbors, most Italian small producers remain focused on tradition.