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...Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start . . . But when you get the damned hurt use it-don't cheat with it . . . About this time I wouldn't blame you if you gave me a burst. Jesus it's marvellous to tell other people how to write, live, die etc. . . . You see, Bo, you're not a tragic character. Neither am I. All we are is writers and what we should do is write. Of all people on earth you needed discipline in your work and instead you marry someone who is jealous...
...does, the reader thinks, his eyes opened by Morgan's perception of Americans as "the true existentialists ... Anxiety is the price that must be paid for boundless opportunity, including the opportunity to cheat the system, and not everyone can handle it." But passion does not improve the reasoning process, and when the author supports his arguments with windy civics lectures and careless unravelings from U.S. history, he can be more provocative than illuminating. Cases in point include a lame paragraph that seeks to prove "a high incidence of breakdown among men and women in public life" by linking...
Once the finale does arrive, it turns out to be a cheat. The story's relationships are not satisfactorily resolved, and we are left with a melodramatic denouement that recalls, of all movies, the Judy Garland version of A Star Is Born. It is quite a comedown from Coming Home's superb opening sequence, in which maimed veterans heatedly debate the war over a game of pool...
...collect Social Security checks. Ultimately, Gutmann feels, the subterranean economy, like black markets around the world, was created by the nation's cobweb of employment restrictions and tax rules. Coupled with a new-morality spirit of what he calls "selective obedience to the law," they encourage Americans to cheat the System when they can get away with it. Unless the Government faces up to the figures and to the need for sweeping tax reform, warns Gutmann, "an ever larger part of the total economy will go underground...
...diversion only by those who have not been thrashed by a ZYGOTE-wielding expert, sells briskly in seven languages, at $19 for the plastic-coated board with turntable base, and supports a bimonthly newspaper and some 55 clubs across the nation. Fans of new board games called Lie Cheat & Steal and Seduction (sample hazard: "Remove an article of clothing and stimulate the person you are pursuing") so far have not formed leagues...