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...could be more surprised than Bo. except perhaps the reader, when a quiet English girl named Daphne Poole takes him to her Cambridge flat and locks the door. Bo and Daph make beautiful movie music together, scored for "storms of feeling, extraordinary furnace fires, bottomless spasms, tender places, changes, quiets." After Buzz crudely tries to seduce her. it is Daphne who alerts Bo to his hero's lies, bluster and twisted bravery-"the courage that wants to be alone, that really wants death for all.'' On The Body's final mission, Buzz keeps his neurotic rendezvous...
...president of the Teamsters, Jimmy Hoffa was No. 2 man on the surface but already No. 1 in real power. In 1957 he elbowed discredited Dave Beck aside, got himself elected president with a salary of $50,000 a year, plus $15,000 extra from Local 299, plus a bottomless expense fund. Despite his prosperity, Jimmy Hoffa, with his wife Josephine and their son and daughter, has conspicuously continued to live in the lower-middle-class Detroit house that he bought 20 years ago for $6,800 (it is now worth about...
...Push. The Quinns moved into a house on Portlock Road near Diamond Head, where many a newcoming mainland family settled down. A bright lawyer, gifted with exuberant charm and bottomless energy, Bill soon had his teeth sunk into virtually every aspect of island life that appealed to him-especially theatricals (Mr. Roberts, Brigadoon) and politics ("Politics is a happy combination of theater and law"). Some acquaintances say that Quinn was really a Democrat, but switched to the G.O.P. because the Democratic Party in the islands lacked stability and purpose. Says he: "I had a choice: I could either join...
Pinball prose, grookish goofiness and all, Kerouac's book is a pleasant boyhood novel. Doctor Sax, which was written in 1952, comes from the apparently bottomless hopper that the author had filled before his bestselling On the Road was published. Perhaps because it contains no such adult concerns as marijuana, Zen Buddhism or women to dull his exuberance, it is Kerouac's best book...
...would be most happy to see the last roundup of about nine-tenths of your swaggering B.G.s and G.G.s alike with a subsequent mass-dumping in the nearest bottomless horse trough...