In Smiley's case, she has used the business and pleasure of horse-racing in Horse Heaven, and a slightly ramshackle midwestern university in the sublime Moo, to write about how people connect, and how they depend on each other.
True to the spirit of American optimism, an even greater percentage -- 86 percent -- say they believe in heaven, while a slightly lower number, 76percentt, subscribe to a belief in hell.
Virgin No. 35: By the way, here in Heaven "virgin" has a slightly different meaning.
In one of the movie's many monologues, Omalu says that, as a young man, he imagined America as a place just slightly below heaven, home to God's favored people.
Not too long ago plenty of folks had problems marrying outside of their own religion, or, heaven forbid, were a slightly different skin color.
In fact, Faulks's main take on the world's most famous spy is that he's getting on a bit and that - heavens! - he may be slightly worried about impotence.
After their manager, Bob Last, engineered a split from Marsh and Ware – who went off slightly huffily and invented Heaven 17 – Oakey and Wright feared the worst.
Looking back, nothing could have prepared me for the summer that followed, but it ended up being some slightly demented form of heaven just the same.
I especially liked Jason's revenge, both the "I've been to heaven – it was inside your wife" and the slightly less sophisticated "white-suited motherfucker" lines.
But this buzzing hive has a still center: one slightly bruised-looking blonde with stairway-to-heaven legs and a cool air of come-and-get-me composure.
