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...time is half-past the Apocalypse in the inventive French comedy DELICATESSEN, but the setting has the look of Gallic movies from the grungy- romantic '30s. Everything else is, well, different. Meat is scarce here, so the piggy butcher serves chopped humans to his customers -- who may soon be his victims. A housewife bent on suicide rigs up a dozen Rube Goldberg devices of destruction. Underground, an army of inept "Troglodists" (sort of Middle- Age Mutant Dingy Frogmen) plots revolution. And a nice guy in clown shoes hopes the butcher's myopic daughter will see the goodness in his heart...
...novel's many unhinged moments, a typically bizarre collection of Crews characters gather in a Florida swamp for the late-night cremation of Henry Leemer. As her father burns on the pyre, Sarah Leemer gives saccharine | assurances to her lover, Pete Butcher, the angry-young-man hero; Sarah does indeed want a "houseful of little ones." When the ashes cool, the widow Gertrude Leemer, still recovering from a double mastectomy, hefts her husband's skull like a bowling ball and muses, "The final scar makes all of us safe from the world." She credits this insight to the sinister Linga...
...history of odd characters who become overnight celebrities: Buckwheat, Ed Grimley, Jon Lovitz's compulsive liar, the Samurai Butcher, to name...
...college basketball game. About the time the fan in my hard drive makes me think that evil spirits in my brain are yelling at me. About the time I dream that Marion Barry reads my thesis about him, hates it, escapes from jail and is scouring Cambridge with a butcher knife looking...
...testified to the U.N.'s growing clout. Of the 15 members, 13 sent heads of government; two grabbed the spotlight. Russian President Boris Yeltsin was trying to shed his image as a hard-drinking oaf. Chinese Prime Minister Li Peng was trying to shed his pariah status as the Butcher of Beijing...