How To Use Rushdie In A Sentence
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OSAMA RUSHDIE, FORMER EGYPTIAN MILITANT (through translator): I believe that these youngsters are aiming at two goals, one against Egyptian government and one against the West, based on the known principles of al Qaeda.
CNN Transcript Apr 24, 2006
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And as a tailpiece, Padma Lakshmi, Rushdie's muse of many years now, has revealed that she often has disagreements with her husband about her numerous pairs of shoes.
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Have you read Salman Rushdie?
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Ever since the late Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, or death sentence, against Rushdie for what some Muslims called the blasphemies in his fantasy-filled novel "The Satanic Verses," Rushdie has been in hiding under the protection of Britain's security police.
The Stories Never Stop
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- where Jews and Judaism are characterized as the perfidious enemy of Islam, and Israel becomes the Salmon Rushdie of the nations.
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Rushdie's controversial book
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Still, despite all sorts of turmoil, Rushdie has never surrendered to this seemingly all-pervasive impoverishment of our imaginative faculties.
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Sir Salman Rushdie, darling of the literary establishment and the crown prince of the Booker Prize, has been snubbed from the short list for ... the Booker Prize.
New York Sun - All Articles
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But if reality has become porous and unstable, Rushdie is not simply celebrating the protean, metamorphic nature of things.
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Its central story – a boy who must enter a magical realm and defeat malevolent forces on his storyteller father's behalf – is repeated in Luka and the Fire of Life, which has been written for Rushdie's younger son, Milan, who rather understandably wanted his own book.
Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie - review
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And the neoconservative school of columnists was almost unanimous in jeering at Rushdie for being hoist by his own petard.
Holy Writ
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Rushdie's borrowings from Dante consist of topographical and stylistic devices.
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Others finger Salman Rushdie's knighthood as an incitement of Muslim outrage.
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Indeed, Rushdie's first novel Grimus is cast in the shape of Dantean katabasis, both in the diegesis of a descent journey and in the ethical framework of what Brennan refers to as Rushdie's ‘coming-to-self’.
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Despite his aversion to literary pretension, Parks has translated the Italian writer, who is more surely a purveyor of bosh than Rushdie ever will be.
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And, like Rushdie, Kureishi is also asserting the parity of sacred and secular forms of storytelling.
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To complaints of this kind — which have been voiced with regard to the earlier books as well — defenders of Rushdie have responded by arguing that he works, and should therefore be read, within two narrative traditions: of the Western novel (with its subgenre, the anti-novel à la Tristram Shandy), and of Eastern story-cycles like the Panchatantra, with their chainlike linking of self-contained, shorter narratives.
Palimpsest Regained
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According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Rushdie "lambasted" both the "feel-good movie" and the book.
Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories
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Jews and Judaism are characterized as the perfidious enemy of Islam and Israel becomes the Salmon Rushdie of the nations
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The British-Indian writer Salman Rushdie is a pioneer in post-colonial literature and he is acclaimed as "Godfather of post-colonial literature" at the same time.
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Woolfian greatness of, 157; as Rushdie fan, 157; as disappointing husband, 158-159; as slogger, 158; hypergraphia of, 158
Who's Who
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And even Rushdie's publisher, Viking Penguin, was forced to temporarily close its New York City office to improve security.
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She didn't get off to a good start with a botched explanation of why giving Salman Rushdie a knighthood was a bad idea.
Question Time
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Mr. Naipaul's "picong" remarks range from silly putdowns -- such as when he said of one of Queen Elizabeth's grandchildren that she had the face of a criminal -- to snippy but revelatory show-off remarks, like his comment that the fatwa against Salman Rushdie for "The Satanic Verses" was an extreme form of literary criticism.
The Man Behind the Man of Letters
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On the level of language, Rushdie translates Hindi and Urdu demotic speech patterns freely into English and inflects the language of his characters with dialect patterns particular to the class, region, or community they belong to.
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Of antirealist writers -- experimentalists, postmodernists, magical realists; Rushdie, DeLillo, Zadie Smith
Powell's Books: Overview
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The decision to recommend that Salman Rushdie receive a knighthood was a bold and correct one.
Petitions
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Salman Rushdie is so much identified with seriousness — his choice of subjects, from Kashmir to Andalusia; his position as a literary negotiator of East and West; his decade and more of internal exile in hiding from the edict of a fanatical theocrat — that it can be easy to forget how humorous he is.
Cassocks and Codpieces
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Our poor chief sub failed to notice that Salman Rushdie became Salmon.
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Rushdie's Nobu is neither present nor dead; instead he is the "trickster," symbolizing a learning lesson Rushdie wanted to express.
Nancy Chuda: Childrens' Books: The Gift That Keeps on Giving
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But none of these assessments really responds to the way this novel repeats, elaborates, and extends Rushdie's earlier representations of explosive and implosive life shapes.
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In the case of Islam VS Salman Rushdie, the issues are clear. He is a blasphemous traitor to his religion, or is he a crusader of free speech?
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And jon's point about the media's decision not to publish the Danish cartoons or to raise a hue and cry over Wilders shows how conditional the chatterati consider freedom of speech (I remember how mealy mouthed they were over Rushdie's fatwah as well).
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
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There are very few book length studies of Rushdie and this work therefore becomes extremely significant in the critical canon.
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As will be argued, Rushdie's novel can be approached as an instance of a modernized fairy tale utopia, as well as a move from the sheer critique of the present state of things to the anticipatory vision of a more hospitable world.
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I've never met anyone who's managed to plough through a whole bookful of Rushdie's turgid prose.
Salman Rushdie Does Not Deserve a Knighthood But He Must Keep It
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I like the overdog," Rushdie replied with an impish grin.
Baseball
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Rushdie's borrowings from Dante consist of topographical and stylistic devices.
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In a letter to this newspaper, the film director Ken Russell and the producer David Puttnam join Rushdie and Amis and the actress Rosamund Pike in urging the council to save the heritage centre, which costs around £60,000 a year to run and houses the copies of Lawrence's controversial masterpiece Lady Chatterley's Lover used in the obscenity trial that followed Penguin's publication of the unexpurgated version in 1960.
Campaign to save DH Lawrence legacy unites arts elite
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He justifies his decision to not name his children as his greatest achievement by saying they're not solely his and thereby avoids missing a prime opportunity to snap yet another posterity-photo of himself and his luminous crew, and instead responds that his greatest achievement is "being the dedicatee of books by Salman Rushdie and Martin Amis, and poems by James Fenton and Robert Conquest.
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