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...Louisiana Four - as they were fondly referred to by many at CPAC - then headed to a party hosted by Mike Flynn, editor of the website Big Government, at Morton's steakhouse. Flynn had not only an open bar tab but stacks of fine cigars for guests to chuff on. (Read about a new wave of conservatives...
...fullest explanation of the book mobile's attraction more likely lies in what the town has become: less a town than an accidental suburb, a collection of people who live on there long after the town's reason for being has gone. Trains only whistle as they chuff through Claypool these days. Such a place, in raw reality, provides precious few events to rally the folks into community. The brief stop of the Read-A-Rama provided just such an event, producing, by chance, a good day for all and enough poignant memories to fill a book...
...platform shoes kick up the dust in the streets of Istiqlal, the capital. Down in the slums the click of cal abashes and the muezzin's call to prayer compete with an alien rhythm, "with words, repeated in the tireless ecstasy of religious chant, that seemed to say. Chuff, chuff/ do it to me, baby,/ do it, do it,/ Momma don't mind what Daddy...
...estimable Ernest M. Frimbo is the Baron Munchausen of railroads, with a puff of Lucius Beebe and a chuff of Cervantes thrown in. Frimbo-the "world's greatest railroad buff'-is the brain child of Rogers E.M. Whitaker, who has himself bumpety-thumped across 2,334,000 miles of rails from Moscow, Russia to Moscow, Ill. By inventing Frimbo-lexicographer, gourmet, jazz fan, connoisseur of contessas and, of course, compulsive investigator of trains-Whitaker has transmuted what might have been a soda-water sermon on the glory and decline of the trains into a Jules Vernean adventure that...
...story is occasionally soppy where Chuff and Philomela are concerned, but it cleverly explores Blake's romantic notion that men and animals are similar victims of a society that, practically from birth, puts them both in a series of cages. As he pursues his life of humanitarian crime, Chuff ponders the plight of men and animals, and very satisfactorily reflects on the loyalties and limitations of the British class system with a clear eye and an absence of rancor and cant that should delight the ghost of George Orwell...