Word: aminations
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ROXBURY--Huddled between the Daily Fish Market and Sunny's Market outside of Dudley Square, a 33 year-old man who goes by the single name of Amin was selling CDs and video tapes to passersby yesterday...
...however, this limited vocabulary can get very frustrating--leading to rounds of Baby Jeopardy ("I'll take crackers for $500, Art!") as parents guess what Baby is trying to "say." A baby caught in this bind can, at times, resort to acting like a frustrated, incontinent mini-dictator--Idi Amin in a diaper...
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC Ding dong the ethnic cleanser's gone. Slav brothers wary of asylum. You're no Idi Amin...
...novel is, ostensibly, the coming-of-age story of its narrator, Mugezi, who is born in a tiny Ugandan village in the early 1960s and who grows up to witness firsthand his country's plunge into chaos under the dictatorship of Idi Amin during the '70s. But Mugezi is not one of those fictional characters who report only what he can plausibly know or have experienced. He gives all the intimate particulars that occur during the wedding night of his father Serenity and his mother Padlock; notes the later occasion of his own conception and, near the end, provides...
...societies into hectic cities governed by money rather than loyalties. Mugezi learns that he must be devious and tough simply to stay alive. He fights what he sees as the tyranny of his parents and the authoritarian rule of the priests at his school. For a while, he idolizes Amin's power and intransigence. But this feeling fades, and the stroll he takes through anarchic Kampala, his adopted urban home, just after the overthrow of Amin in 1979 becomes a harrowing hell. Precious few first novels are as phantasmagoric or as haunting as this...