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What sets these books apart from similar works by less talented writers is their refusal to oversimplify or offer easy prescriptions for the underclass dilemma. As McCall acknowledges, "My background and those of my running partners don't fit all the convenient theories, and the problems among us are more complex than something we can throw jobs, social programs or more policemen at." That maddening complexity, these two powerful books make clear, keeps it nearly as difficult for young blacks to free themselves from bondage today as it was in Douglass's time...
...Pudding spectacle wouldn't be complete, of course, without its traditional kickline. Radio City Music Hall, remember? Which causes a bit of a dramatic dilemma: finding a reasonto get every actor out character and into a teeny-weeny kickline costume is admittedly tough...
...anything should have persuaded sports authorities to confront their unprecedented dilemma earlier, it is the effect on other competitors. Most are well known and would like a little press attention that the folks back home could share in. They are almost completely ignored. Kurt Browning, a Canadian contender for the men's title, would normally be surrounded by reporters, but he only gets asked about Harding/Kerrigan. Says he: "It's not about figure skating anymore...
...rest of Face the Music is bubble-gum sweet, alternating between mid- tempo make-out sound tracks and swooning ballads whose message is pretty much summed up by the dilemma expressed in Girls: "What would boys be without girls to love? . . . / Can't live with 'em, can't live without girls." That's the first thing boys learn when they grow...
Those who wondered not only whether but how Roth would resolve his dilemma now have at least an introductory answer. The first installment of Mercy of a Rude Stream displays documentary rather than novelistic ambitions. It takes its young hero, Ira Stigman, from his eighth year, in 1914, after he and his parents have moved from the Lower East Side to an apartment in Harlem, up to age 14. It also offers interpolated passages in which Ira as an aging man conducts imagined conversations with the computer on which he is writing his life story. Late in this novel...