Word: cuyama
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Fanatically health-conscious Americans long ago deserted red meat, but they may soon flock back, attracted by a new entry on the menu: ground ostrich. Last month the Cuyama Buckhorn restaurant, about 160 miles north of Los Angeles, started serving ostrich burgers. Owner Ed Barredo charges the same for ostrich as for beef hamburgers, $6.95, and says he is selling about 25 pounds of ostrich a week...
Futility does not, as a rule, breed much suspense. And Trinidad-born Author Shiva Naipaul, 39, leaves little room to imagine that life in Cuyama will do anything but grow progressively worse. The interesting question in this novel, Naipaul's third, is not whether Aubrey's idealism will founder but what forms his disillusionment will take. Faced with a failing business and marriage, the hero hurls himself into the struggle to save the constitution...
...passion, his sincerity, could not be disputed. The only thing that could be disputed was his capacity to stem the tide of events." Aubrey's spirits soar when Alexander Richer, an old college friend and now a prominent British journalist, responds to a whim and decides to visit Cuyama for a few days. Aubrey tells Dina: "It's a great coup for us to have him' coming out here." Perhaps ; now the English-speaking...
...journalist, a self-avowed "moral butterfly" with an airline ticket out, finds himself bored by Cuyama almost as soon as he lands. He has seen poverty and post-colonial delusions of grandeur before, and will again. Dina sinks further into liberating despair, secretly desiring the destruction her husband campaigns against...
Aubrey fares worst. His guest reminds him of his own years in England, of a Western standard of civilization wholly lacking in Cuyama: "We go abroad and we see how other people live. We study at their universities, we read their books, we admire their paintings and their fine buildings, we walk in their parks. Then we return home and discover that, in terms of what we've experienced, we're barely human. We discover that we've done nothing worthy of interest, don't know how to do anything and, perhaps, don't even...