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...take up with an American woman. Dissatisfied with the negotiations for the rights to his eighth novel, The Information, he dumped his agent, Pat Kavanagh, thereby infuriating her husband, the author Julian Barnes, who was until that moment one of Amis' closest friends. Amis underwent a long bout of dental reconstruction, prompting reporters to observe, in print, that he was not only a failed husband and father and money-mad but vain as well. And then the other famous Amis, his father Kingsley, died in 1995, the sole misfortune during this period that was not blamed, at least not publicly...
...mood of Experience is thus valedictory rather than recriminatory. The book hums with the same antic prose and looping comic riffs that characterize Amis' fiction. He recounts his dental misadventures, for example, with masochistic self- mockery. But about the sufferings of others he manifests a tenderness that may surprise his faithful readers. The portrait of his father, in his happy prime and then in sad decline, is fascinating and moving. "When he made you laugh," Amis writes, "he sometimes made you laugh--not continuously, but punctually--for the rest of your life." How fortunate that this son is, like...
...know what we've got on our minds, wander the Web to gauge the current state of boomer consciousness. A recently launched site targeted at people over 50, GenerationA.com boasts of its large-size type fonts. Elsewhere, the author of a regular boomer column begins, "I had some serious dental work done this week." The longest threads in the community section of "Boomer Board" are about estrogen-replacement therapies. A new boomer site, myprimetime.com has so brazenly donned the generation's narcissistic garment that without irony, it calls its series of cheesy self-evaluation quizzes "Me Meters...
...times over six weeks, the participants all wear name tags at all the sessions. Members who forget to attend a class are free to come back in the next six-week cycle--especially helpful for absentminded folks like me who may still be trying to make up missed dental appointments originally scheduled...
...Workers] can't pay their rent in dental visits or museum passes," Offner says...