Word: dog
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whimsical quest in a tape which accompanies the shop. In the best American diehard tradition Jeremiah Rippe flouted convention, defied public opinion, devoted his whole life to the creation of ever more powerful and improbable looking engines, and eventually died, a broken and unrecognized inventor mourned only by his dog. His last creation--the spawn of a mind unhinged by disappointment--was a monstrous machine that was meant to pull his coffin to his grave...
...DOG TAGS by STEPHEN BECKER 307 pages. Random House...
What, finally, do all these plots have in common? Survival. As the lost soldier, as the wandering Jew, as the middle-class American who finds himself unexpectedly at the point of no return, Benny Beer is a combatant whose dog tags do less to establish his identity than to signal the fact that he is in a war to the death. As a 20th century man, Beer, even in peace, is a sort of P.O.W. Even at home he is a refugee Becker is given to spells of rhetoric and eccentric time skips. But in the end this very raggedness...
...type of figure that the image of cold, yet capricious New York is built around. He communicates by shock. Flattering several matrons in an elevator by immediately identifying them as members of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Christian informs them that one of them has certainly stepped in dog excrement. In the park, he systematically picks out obese women to ask them if they want to fornicate...
Again masterfully increasing tempo with first-encore "Rock and Roll Is Here to Stay," Sha swings into "Hound Dog" to boost both the audience and the band to a trembling plateau of anticipation for the show's climax. And then, with a final burst of energy, a sweating and breathless Sha erupts into "Great Balls of Fire" for an intense and frenzied culmination of the crescendo...