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...Mets came to your town it was like Mardi Gras," you write. "The clubs would be packed, waiting for us to roll in. Guys wanted to get next to us and buy us drinks or take us into the men's room and lay out a few rails of coke . . .The only hard part for us was choosing which hottie to take back to your hotel room." You include a couple of anecdotes about your own sexual trysts. Why share that detail? Because it's the truth. This is not about some writer hearing it out of someone's mouth...
That puts a lot of pressure on the prose, but Whitehead, whose writing earned him a MacArthur "genius" grant in 2002, makes the surface idiom-rich and plenty compelling. Benji is a Coke fiend (the drink, not the drug - he's a good kid), and 1985 was the year of New Coke, an announcement that hit him hard. "It was as if someone had popped the top of the world," he says, "and let all the air out." The simile perfectly fits the crime...
...were young in the mid-'80s, you'll remember the trauma of that moment - if Coke could change, what couldn't? And if you were Benji's age, you'll remember the party at the roller rink, the Apple II+, the Tears for Fears video and the way everybody said "dag," a word expressive of such complex emotion that you couldn't possibly articulate its meaning. But Whitehead can. "Dag was bitter acknowledgment of the brutish machinery of the world," Benji explains, and he makes it sound so right and true that you wish people would start...
...only thing we’ve done is bother Drew Faust in Eliot dining hall,” Aguilera said. “It’s all part of a bigger campaign.” After less than five minutes, the SLAM members left Faust to her Diet Coke and salad. One Eliot resident at the roundtable expressed confusion over the unexpected intrusion. “For a second, I thought those were people from Adams,” he said. Faust visited Winthrop House for lunch in February. —Staff writer Athena Y. Jiang...
...Faust chokes on Diet Coke. Faustfail...