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...home. We enter at our own risk. We know from common sense that sharks live in the ocean, that surfers resemble seals and that dusk is an inappropriate time to go swimming, especially alone. Sharks are fascinating creatures of the seas and should get some respect. KIM FRILEY Columbus, Ohio...
...when he is good, he is spectacular. Roth's 1959 debut, Goodbye, Columbus, a collection of five stories and the title novella, won a National Book Award. Having leaped from promising to prizewinning in a single bound, Roth could have set about repeating the formula that had brought him such instant recognition. But one of his more intriguing aspects has been his refusal to tailor his work to anyone else's expectations. Within a decade of the delicate Jamesian fiction in Goodbye, Columbus, Roth wrote Portnoy's Complaint, a barbaric yawp of masturbatory misadventures and comic rage...
Looking back, Roth sees a pattern to his work: "Ever since Goodbye, Columbus, I've been drawn to depicting the impact of place on American lives. Portnoy's Complaint is very much the raw response to a way of life that was specific to his American place during his childhood in the '30s and '40s. The link between the individual and his historic moment may be more focused in the recent trilogy, but the interest was there from the start." Roth is a serious writer who has never been somber in print; his narrative voice is unique...
...Once upon a time, the news of American Greetings' decline might have upset me, because once upon a time I gave a whole lot of greeting cards. In fact, I nearly single-handedly kept my local card shop in business. In anticipation of a major national holiday (like Columbus Day) or especially important birthday (my dog's, for example), I would troll the aisles for the perfect message, driving the salespeople to distraction by handling, opening and reading card after card. I always avoided those horrible schmaltzy cards with photos of overfed children or sunsets on the front and mind...
...understand budgets," says state representative Jim Carmichael, one of Ohio's 45 house rookies. Carmichael worked for a gas utility for 33 years before coming to Columbus, and he admits he depends on colleagues to explain budget matters. "I was talking with a fellow member about an item, and he said, 'Well, it's only $104 million.'" says Carmichael. "I thought 10 bucks was a lot of money." Rookie Derrick Seaver was facing high school math this time last year, running for an open seat at 18. Life as a legislator is a little different. "The amount of time...