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...heading for disaster. It got particularly bad when one of the members of the Black Students Association got very angry and started yelling. I remember asking her to calm down, telling her that "we invited you here for a discussion," and being told very quickly to shut up. "This ain't no discussion, man," said the deep male voice that went with the "shut up" and a long accusatory finger. "This is a confrontation...
Dear Mailman: You ain't never been a woman at 8 o'clock in the morning...
Author Barry Hannah, 38, is also a connoisseur of the rundown, the tacky, the disreputable. Observes one wastrel: "My pappy's from Mississippi. He ain't worth nothing, but there he is." Pretty much the same thing can be said about Ray himself. Hannah is talented enough to make his hero's uninhibited meanness sympathetic and humorous. Ray says things that most people only think, at low moments: "I get tired of people. All of them driving around in their cars, eating, having to be." But unrelieved rascality can grow boring, and this short novel ends...
This night, Action Herbie was working on his picks for the following day. "I like Philly," he kept mumbling between sips of a club soda (Herbie doesn't drink), "and I love Oakland. Ain't no way Oakland's gonna lose...
...asked him why. "Philly's got a balanced offense, with Carmichael and Montgomery. Only one NFC team that's gonna stop that offense, and it ain't the Vikings, that's for sure. And Cleveland," he continued, "there's an overrated team. Why, two years ago they all thought Sipe...