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...Marlboro ad; they heckle like pros, and poor Anaheim outfielder Tim Salmon is in just the right spot to hear them talk about his mama. The guys on either side of me decide to join in. “Hey, Salmon, your mom called!” they bellow in unison. “She said you suck...
...derived from that vantage point. He became a Canadian Mencken, caustically attacking separatists and French language supremacists. But he could also go to Waugh, matching in his best fiction?from The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959) to Barney's Version (1997)?the work of contemporaries Philip Roth and Saul Bellow. The Scotch drinking, Schimmelpenninck cigar-smoking Mordecai was never a follower of stylish food fads. Dine with him in a deli and order a pastrami lean, and Mordecai would tell the waiter, "Bring me his fat." Our lives will all be a little leaner without...
...would you need to show off when just being there sets you above hoi polloi: the cheapest low-season rate is $391 for two people per day, and in the high season, $2,926. "Sometimes when guests drop down out of the sky, I feel like I should bellow, 'Welcome to Fantasy Island,'" says manager Julian Moore. "Here, they come to get away from the world." Or their accountants. For reservations, call...
With a wave of his pudgy hand, the biggest man on campus will dismiss the recommendations of the Katz committee. “Out! Out with those arbitrary wage floors!” he’ll bellow. “We will have no market imperfections at this University...
...novel Kaaterskill Falls (1998)--has quite prepared readers for the sustained comic exuberance of Paradise Park (Dial; 360 pages; $24.95). Her earlier work certainly wasn't grim, but it tended toward the polished and well mannered and resonant, a la 19th century British fiction. Not this time. Like Saul Bellow and Philip Roth before her, Goodman has achieved a breakthrough book by discovering and recording a thoroughly uninhibited narrative voice. Bellow found Augie March, and Roth hit upon Alexander Portnoy. Goodman gives the world Sharon Spiegelman...