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...postcard breaks on MacNeil-Lehrer and said she thought we'd be better off if we just forgot the marriage." As the legal wrangling winds down, Martin flies off for no apparent reason to stay at the motel on Florida's Gulf Coast managed by his sister-in-law Dominica. Before long, the two of them are in bed together, with the TV again bearing witness: "About nine we started to make love but then quit in the middle of things and went for a walk. We got hamburgers at a beach dive called the Rubber Shack that specialized...
Given this pervasive electronic wallpaper, Martin naturally describes characters in terms ready made for a passive audience. The lawyer he chooses to represent him in the divorce is "a guy who looked like Wayne Newton." An oddly menacing figure who turns up at Dominica's motel "looked like Dustin Hoffman, for some reason." Similarly, Martin reports on natural scenery most confidently when he can compare it to name-brand products. Walking along the beach, he notes that "the Gulf shined like mylar." Out for a drive, he remarks, "The clouds were like spills of dark Cool Whip going in slow...
DIED. PIERRE CHARLES, 49, Prime Minister of the Caribbean island of Dominica; apparently of a heart attack; in Dominica. A former teacher who became the country's longest-serving legislator and a critic of U.S. policy in the Caribbean, he was appointed head of state in 2000 after his predecessor died, also of a heart attack...
Norris Prevost, a senator from Dominica, a Caribbean island four times the size of Washington, D.C., told the group that globalization makes it hard for Third World countries to keep up with richer nations, so the Caribbean must specialize in order to compete...
With the renewed scrutiny directed at Citibank Trinidad, Trinidad is reconsidering another controversial deal, a complex 1998 interest-rate swap now under review by its attorney general. Conrad Enill, Trinidad's Finance Minister, says his government is closely watching what happens in Dominica. So far no one has been willing to reopen the Trintomar transaction, but Seereeram persists. It took his father 15 years to win his sugar battle. Seereeram has been fighting for only four...