Word: basics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like most everything else about Lorrie Moore's collection of short stories from the title on, this subversively weird choice of quotes (the third one comes from Butchering Livestock at Home) is at once whimsically ironic and bitterly true. Moore's basic here and throughout is that can be as radical radical and ridiculous as the globular mollusk's loss of a tentacle during sex. The stories deal with pain of the most banal and yet terrible sort--the pain of relationships and marriages gone bad, of broken families...
...those who loved the character, Broderick's endearingly klutzy impersonation, Gene Saks' straightforward staging and the humanity of the author's reminiscence, Simon last week brought them back in the second Broadway installment of a planned autobiographical trilogy. Biloxi Blues sends Eugene to Mississippi for basic training in 1943. He faces authority and danger, anti-Semitism and assimilation. He methodically loses his virginity with a prostitute (Randall Edwards), less for pleasure than as a rite of passage, then rediscovers his innocence in the chaste embrace of a Catholic schoolgirl. He confronts the chasm between his diary jottings and literature...
...economy might suffer severe damage. Regardless, cutting the deficit will bring back Niger levels of unemployment. In other words, no matter what we do in the next four or five years, American will be left with a larger debt, tremendous interest payments, and none of our economy's basic problems solved...
Bozzotto, who is on the steering committee of the Free South Africa Movement, said Harvard plays a major role in "enforcing" apartheid by "denying basic rights to 72 percent of the South African population...
...attitude. So far the Arab initiatives have not "gone far enough to galvanize a positive Israeli response," says one U.S. official. As the leader of a fragile coalition government, Peres may have trouble bargaining with the Arabs. The conservative Likud adamantly opposes territorial exchange, which for some is the basic coin of the peace negotiations. Peres and his Labor Party are not now in a position to dominate the Likud or ease it out of power in new elections. The U.S., however, supports the Prime Minister's approach to the Arab overtures. "He has been careful and reserved, but open...