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...Olympic Games in Los Angeles, 48 years after Jesse Owens won gold medals in the long jump, the 100, the 200 and the relay, Lewis is favored in the same four events. Amid the bedlam of track's athletic circus, only he makes everything else come to a stop. His body is hard, like mahogany, but carved in unusually clear detail, including ropelike muscular definition. He is full-faced, rather babyfaced, but otherwise trim: 6 ft. 2 in., 173 Ibs. As a 100-meter sprinter, Lewis has registered the third-fastest time ever...
...sense. On repeated listenings, however, the first-takes give the music an urgency and a power that might be lost if the songs became more polished. Guitarist Bob Mould's work here may be a little sloppier than the clean, metallic flurries that he produced on the e.p. Metal Circus (released at the beginning of this year). It's also more frenetic, more expansive, and more impassioned...
...linked by the common element of fear. Whites are made edgy by the unidentified invader in ways that they cannot or will not understand: "All the residents of the suburbs wanted was for the animal to be confined in its appropriate place, that's all, zoo or even circus. They were prepared to pay for this to be done." Gordimer rarely allows herself passages of such clear and cutting satire. Whites in South Africa have already paid, to keep the majority of blacks in an "appropriate" place, a price yet to be reckoned...
Like America itself, in other words, but more urban, more hopped up, less buttoned down. San Francisco's mild but flighty climate must nurture eccentrics. In 1849, the city's commissioner of deeds resigned to become a singer-songwriter. Some years later, a circus geek called Oofty Goofty became a sidewalk S-M entrepreneur: he let passers-by cane him for a quarter or hit him with a baseball bat for four bits. When another local loon, the self-appointed Norton I, Emperor of North America and Protector of Mexico, died in 1880, 30,000 people...
Santmyer has not played much of a tune on that instrument, but her honest attempt is remarkable for its attention to detail-and, of course, its longevity. One suspects, considering the circus surrounding the book, that it is the publisher who has oversold the song and dance...