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Which is not to say beauty does not still walk down the street in Dalton, Ga., and into the Oakwood for eggs and grits, or into Jimmy's for a cocktail. But the Miss Resaca Beach pageant is no more. It could be that when Marla Maples, who won the thing, ended up with Donald Trump as her trophy, it took the shine off the prize...
Three counties' worth of Floridians were ordered out of their homes last week: 70,000 people fleeing inland along hurricane evacuation routes from flames that have eaten away at the state since Memorial Day. The Pepsi 400 NASCAR race in Daytona Beach was canceled because of low visibility. The fires got within 50 miles of the Magic Kingdom, but Disney World was out of danger at week's end. More than 320,000 acres have burned since May 25. Last week the fires forced the closure of some 200 miles of I-95, Florida's main artery...
...ethnic, particularly Irish and Italian, stereotypes, homophobic jokes, scatological humor and ridiculous portrayals of Mafia types in Boston's North End. Had Lyons focused more on developing real characters and a stimulating plot, Dog Days might actually be a worthwhile read. As it stands, unfortunately, it barely qualifies as beach-reading material, because it's too boring, too violent and too lacking in romance for a truly pro beach reader to be caught dead with...
Unfortunately, the simplicity of Lyons's characters, plots and dialogues becomes overwhelmingly annoying and frustrating. Not only is Dog Days generally unbelievable and insulting to many minorities, it is fluff that probably wouldn't even fly on a hot summer's day at the beach. Essentially, the moral of the Dog Days is that if you don't steal dogs from the Mafia, your life will be straight out of the Eddie Bauer catalogue. Wait a minute--the Eddie Bauer catalogue? No, according to Lyons, life for Boston's yuppies is only worthy of J. Crew...
...thought it was fascinating; you're able torelive history and the spirit of Longfellow," saysPatricia J. Leur, from Long Beach, Calif...