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...short, Erdrich, 34, is not the sort of woolly regionalist who captivates critics with untamed energy and an earthy style. She seems to have a plan for her career; she obviously has a blueprint for her imagination. Although set in an earlier time, from 1912 to 1924, Tracks is part of a projected four-novel cycle that began with Love Medicine and The Beet Queen. Characters from the previous novels appear as youngsters in the new one. The narrative is again moved along by different voices carefully boxed in separate chapters...
...might as well as say it up front, right at the beginning: welfare is bad, very bad. That's the confession which David Ellwood, a good liberal proponent of welfare reform, is forced to make at the outset of his blueprint for change, Poor Support: Poverty in the American Family...
Taken together, these "conundrums" mentioned over and over again in the book provide compelling evidence for far-reaching reform of the current welfare system. And Ellwood's blueprint for change seems a sensible place for Congress to start...
...truth, the ending is a little too happy for this community-action blueprint of a fable. Lots of things are a little too. The actors hold their attitudes a little too long. The resort's temptation for the villagers -- the prosperity it may bring to a distressed region -- is a little too easily shrugged off. After a while even those sunsets numb the unenthralled viewer; he wants to head for Vegas. Milagro is kind to its characters; it works as hard to discover subtleties in their stereotypes as it does to unearth gorgeous new colors in the Southwest palette...
...designing a global blueprint which will define ways for women to exercise political leadership around the world," Ferraro, the president of the IIWPL, said last night. "The Institute wants to help women take their rightful place in politics...