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...novel begins with Archie's suicide attempt, which ends not in death but in holy matrimony to the prettiest young thing in his vicinity. She is Clara Bowden, 19, Jamaican and missing the entire upper deck of her teeth. That is only the literal manifestation of her rootlessness, for she has lost her faith (Jehovah's Witnesses) and loses her mother, who kicks her out upon learning of her miscegenation. Archie and Clara are supposed to save each other. Instead, they spend their lives accommodating an impulsive moment...
Betty Friedan calls herself a "bad-tempered bitch." She is incommunicado before 10 a.m. She will not pose on a seesaw with her grandchildren for a photo ("too hokey"), and she is prone to temper tantrums. Yet sitting on the deck of her son's home in Philadelphia, grandchildren running around with buckets washing the family dog, she is comfortably in her element. "It's all about family," she says in that familiar gravely voice...
...sorry for yourself is just a quick way to end up on the wrong side of a harpoon. After a little hard work, you'll forget your troubles and gain the kind of conditioning essential to the high-stakes (if not always high-seas) working world. Ishmael sweeps the deck, scans the loft and stays high and dry for the next 500 pages. Then, alas, Moby-Dick shows, battle ensues and all are lost save our hero himself. Call it a very hostile takeover...
...wash away the stain of sin, to Baton Rouge, which is less inclined to let the bon temps rouler. Even if Edwards walks, he'll have little time to throw away much cash. He and the state insurance commissioner are defendants in another corruption case that waits on deck. Can the Cajun fox dodge two bullets in one hunting season? If not, they're going to have some of the best poker games in jailhouse history...
...limits of the MBTA. Even if the Harrington-Menino team agrees to an upper deck for the 1912 infrastructure, another 10,000 fans jamming the Kenmore Square area 81 times per season places significantly greater burdens on transportation and police services. Government, including the MBTA, services will be tested by still larger crowds as thousands more fans flock to a larger copy of a copy of a copy of other stadiums...