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...other two strangers eating within earshot. It's their place; we're invisible. While I sense that the N.A.A.C.P. may not wish to pass out brotherhood plaques here, I also smell the first spoor of real life; and the fact that two black policemen and one black councilman work across the street in the town headquarters makes for further fine tuning. (I recall, for instance, that "nigger" in many Anglo-Southern mouths is not a racial insult, but a dialect noun, one used for at least four centuries...
...ingenuity of a press secretary, aggressive tactics by the police or self-restraint among press photographers that spared newspaper readers and television viewers the sight of the dead bodies of San Francisco Mayor George R. Moscone and City Councilman Harvey Milk? No: the coroner got there first and sealed up the rooms. Readers could be grateful nonetheless, so soon after being subjected in vivid detail to the carnage in Guyana...
...Clam Plate Specials and exiles from the Bay of Pigs than McGuane. A drug bust is "too Cuban for words." Pomeroy's dog "kills a lizard; then, overcome with remorse, tips over in the palm shadows for a troubled snooze." The violence is lovingly plotted, coldly calculated, but respected. Councilman Peavey sends Nylon Pindar the thug to straighten Chet...
...city council of Woonsocket, R.I., three weeks ago approved some job descriptions that eliminated supposedly sexist language, a utility man became a utility person, whose duties included "building personholes." Ever since, Woonsocket has been the butt of jokes from as far away as California, prompting Francis Lanctot, a councilman, er, person, to voice his feelings in verse. Excerpt...
...Survivors thronged around their monarch to kiss his hand and assuage their grief by telling him about their suffering. One man who had lost his wife and six children had to be restrained by the Shah and bystanders, from tearing at his hair in the traditional demonstration of mourning. Councilman Bandegi estimated his loss in terms of his clan, the traditional Iranian family grouping. The clan, he said sadly, had lost 341 people, or 83%. Casualties ranged through all levels of Tabas' population. The governor of the town, Ali Mirinejad, 40, lost his wife, children and sister as their home...