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Former Attorney General Dick Thornburgh (CNN's Late Edition ) defends Starr's tin ear for politics as precisely what you want in a prosecutor.
The highlight of the new material is a rendering of Hans Christian Andersen's story "The Steadfast Tin Soldier" to Dmitri Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No.
World demand increased with the growth of the motor-car and electrical industries, and sky-rocketed during World War I. By 1920, Malaya was producing 53 percent of the world’s rubber, which had overtaken tin as its main source of income.
Defenders call it a "largely episodic collection of great moments that aren't all causally linked in that comforting way we're used to" (Yahlin Chang, Newsweek ). Tom Wolfe, who attacked the book in the literary magazine Biblio on the basis of its title--without having read a word of the manuscript--draws a stinging retort from Kirn in the latest issue of Tin House , in which he writes a lovely parody of a negative review for his own book: "I consider it my duty as the author of this offensive work, to carry even further Wolfe's condemnation in hopes of neutralizing, from the start, a potentially harmful literary contagion."
His tin ear on the Hitler stuff--his inability to recognize that it wasn't what he said but what he seemed to say--was baffling; imagine what he'd have said if Al Gore had played footsie with the Commies.