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...shoot. I am a B-b-british object.'' The most bumptious of the young group marches the frightened visitor home, where he is taken in as a stray. Speaking English as a forgotten language, he explains that his name is Gemmy Fairley, that he was a cabin boy shipwrecked off Queensland and raised by what today would be called Native Australians. ''Blacks,'' the fearful pioneers call them. If readers on the other side of the world experience a weird sense of displacement (the wildlife and astronomy are different, but these old Aussies with their Scottish, Irish and English accents...
...sacred memory. But Malouf, a poet as well as a prizewinning novelist, is never too obvious. No stereotypes jump out of the bush. Crocodile Dundee and an easy way with strangers await the next century. Two of the novel's main characters survive to sample the new age. The boy who first led Fairley into town is an important government minister at the time of World War I. His cousin is a nun and natural scientist whose correspondence with a German bee expert arouses suspicions that she is a foreign agent. With this lovely bit of linkage, Malouf closes...
...clotheshorse, it would be John Kruk, the Shmoo-shaped first baseman who tore his pants lunging for a ball early in the final game and, either defiantly or absentmindedly, left his underwear on display for the next seven innings. And if ugly had a poster boy, it would be Mitch (''Wild Thing'') Williams, the reliever who has destroyed nearly as many games as he has saved but is the beneficiary of something like divine luck. Infernal, for the Braves. They won 104 games this season, a franchise record. They have solid management, savvy hitters and an awesomely polished quartet...
...music has become an emotional sound track, speaking directly to unresolved issues of abandonment and unfairness. "I tried hard to have a father/ But instead I had a dad," Nirvana's Cobain sings on In Utero. One of Pearl Jam's biggest hits, Jeremy, is a song about a boy who kills himself in a classroom: "Daddy didn't give attention/ To the fact that Mommy didn't care." Pearl Jam's keen sense of angst has garnered the band comparisons with...
...part of a specifically Catalan cultural renaissance that had been gathering speed since the 1870s, and was only driven underground by Franco. Miro was born and raised in Barcelona. But his parents had a farm near Tarragona, at Montroig, and although he wasn't by any definition a country boy, he did spend a good part of his youth there from 1911 on, starting with recovery from an attack of typhoid fever coupled with a mild nervous breakdown. It is tempting to relate the extraordinary sharpness of focus, the dreamlike distinctness of Miro's early rural images to the fevered...