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...feminist struggle -- if the very word Murphy hadn't become so politically charged in the past few weeks -- which goes like this: When women get to take over some field of human endeavor, it is usually because that field has been downgraded to the level of broom pushing...
...late 1960s and drafted the 1972 memo that served as the blueprint for Carter's march from Georgian obscurity to the White House. Carter's campaign as an ) outsider running against Washington in 1976, notes his longtime friend Bert Lance, is reminiscent of Perot's pose as a new broom unsullied by politics...
...limbs spread eagle for a nanosecond or thrusting one's hindquarters left and right during a fleeting free fall. Skating at breakneck pace in a roller-derby throng around the perimeter of a hockey-size rink. Scuttling along a sheet of ice, brushing away bumps with a broom to clear the path of a flat, slow-moving stone. Or ducking one's head, bracing one's breakables and trying to hurtle faster than a sports car down a short stretch of sheer slope, sans turns, sans twists and sans breathing...
Author David Foster Wallace--author of The Broom of the System and Girl with Curious Hairwill read from his memoir, "Tennis, Trigonometry, Tornadoes." In Charlesbank Bookshops at the Boston University Bookstore Mall, fifth floor reading room, 660 Beacon St., Boston. Thursday, Dec. 12, at 7 p.m. For information call...
Poison with John Broom and Jack Bolton...