Word: belled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...away from her to be with another man. (Of her husband's male friends who used to come visit, she sings bitterly that they were "envying me and flirting with him" instead of the other way round). In a slapstick touch, her husband returns near the end as Judy Bell (Evett), a transsexual telephone repairperson who is now attracted to other women. Nor is this the end of it all: Judy Jr. (Playten), daughter of Judy baby and Judy Bell, decides she's a lesbian, yet gets pregnant. The viewer is left with the sense that things have been taken...
...They should contract out these services--have a Starbucks, Taco Bell and other well-known restaurants," he says...
Here's a short, gritty novel whose elegant construction calls to mind the way Greg Louganis used to dive and Larry Bird and Kevin McHale used to work the back-door play. "Yes!" the amazed onlooker would realize, watching these masters. "That's how it's done!" Madison Smartt Bell's Ten Indians (Pantheon; 272 pages; $23) catches child psychiatrist Mike Devlin just short of burnout, mortally sick from seeing damaged children. He is no longer surprised, for instance, to notice an eight-year-old boy who has come to him with cigarette burns on his body scissoring the crotches...
...neighborhood that wins. Good ending, good novel. The author's most recent book before Ten Indians was All Souls Rising, a panoramic, 530-page historical novel about Haiti's slave rebellion in the 1790s. A lot of readers of the new novel who never read Bell before are going to be digging that one out of libraries and paperback shelves...
Checking your account balance is as easy as a keystroke. You can also check recent bank activity, sorted in dozens of ways. But the selling point of home banking, as the Packard Bell commercials enthuse, is bill payment...