exemplified the dull rigidity of Singapore’s old colonial fantasies about itself. - Jonathan Lethem

I suppose there was never a reason for tearing down a cabin or scrapping a stopped automobile, if you had all those acres.

Relax,' she said. 'There's nothing wrong with a slow, awkward beginning. The text for the whole relationship, the sustaining mythos, is built in the first few encounters. The whirl of emotions, the push and pull. So the more of this kind of material we generate, the better.

His recording career spans just a decade: Rude was silenced by drug abuse and domestic tragedy at the end of the '70s.