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Those like Al Gore, who says "we're searching for what works," should stop searching and work to beef up the one remedy proved to make a difference. If, on the other hand, toughness is defined by proliferating three-strikes laws, or by executing a few more of the worst among us, then, as the recently resigned Deputy Attorney General Philip Heymann says, politics will continue to "overwhelm reason," and we'll be back "searching for what works" after the next election...
This gut reaction to scripture is a deft stroke of literary subversion. It should not draw a Fundamentalist fatwa, though beef lobbyists and overweight- pride groups may grumble about the ceaseless bashing of carnivores and the amply proportioned. Theroux's main dodge is to see American puritanism in a frankly physical rather than spiritual light. Readers may take this sleight to heart or turn it into a belly laugh. Either way, the sorcerer and his apprentice encounter a nation with more than its share of knaves and hypocrites, including the Reverend Huber, a stock evangelist huckster, and Mr. Phyllis, cooing...
...transacted outside but not within; a sink swarming with roaches; a refrigerator filled with rotting and moldy food. An old-fashioned ice-cream crank perches incongruously on a shelf. At Melton's feet, mixed up in a pile of trash, dirt and other garbage, is some dried-up chopped beef. It's for the dog. "Son of a bitch only eats the best," explains Melton...
...many ways, The Faculty Club is lessstately and more raucous than outsiders mightexpect. Take, for example, a sordid tale from itsrecent past. "We had an Era of Horse Steak,beginning in the 1940s, which is always infamous,"Coulson says. During World War II, standard redmeats--beef, pork, veal, lamb, etc.--became hardto come by, and the Club increasingly had to relyon alternative ingredients...
...bands still around (Frances Gumm, for example, or Circus Lupus) are indebted to Honor Role in some way; aMINIATURE, who are one of the best, are also more indebted than most. The guitar sound on Depth Five Rate Six is thicker--"grungier," if you will--than Dinty Moore's Beef Stew, thicker than you get on most metal records, and a total contrast to the painfully thin sound Honor Role cultivate. The bass and drums, though, come straight from the Honor Role fakebook--together, the parts of the rhythm section generally seem to be lurching sideways, trying to steady themselves...