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King's office itself is part of the non-literary side of the collection. A bust of Longfellow by a black woman sculptor graces her bookcase, and a stained glass window by Sarah Lyman Whitman, the first woman stained glass designer, is behindKing's desk...
...funny woman with a clear gaze and a trace of self-mockery. Far from stuffy about good taste, she is even given to repeating the awful and ancient schoolyard joke that is a painful memory to every oversize woman: "Confucius say, boy who dance with tall girl get bust in the mouth...
...spiritual guardian corresponds closely to the outlaw Indian Geronimo in Hannah's Geronimo Rex. But this is McGuane's own, and nobody, not even Hannah, deals better with the South of Holiday Inn Clam Plate Specials and exiles from the Bay of Pigs than McGuane. A drug bust is "too Cuban for words." Pomeroy's dog "kills a lizard; then, overcome with remorse, tips over in the palm shadows for a troubled snooze." The violence is lovingly plotted, coldly calculated, but respected. Councilman Peavey sends Nylon Pindar the thug to straighten Chet...
ANYWAY, CHEECH AND CHONG spend a lot of time driving around Los Angeles freeways, smoking dope, urinating, saying "Man," and looking for women. In the meantime they start a rock band and win a contest at the Roxy, get deported to Tijuana, avoid several attempted busts, drive a large green van entirely built out of marijuana across the border to Beverly Hills, and smoke a lot of dope. They dominate the movie, wooden as they are, by refusing to put any other characters in the film, using instead a loosely constructed set of stereotypes and caricatures to fill...
...consumer-fraud/white-collar-crime unit listen to the complaints of passersby, then mediate with merchants, doctors and the Like. Most complaints concern car repairs; others range from false advertising to ill-fitting hairpieces. One woman complained of a backache that came from wearing a bra supposed to increase her bust size. No complaint is too small: the unit once got back a 200 soda-bottle deposit for a small boy from his neighborhood grocer...