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...you’ve been talking some shit Boggle-wise. Let me just say that I’m not a betting man, but the odds are good that you, “Matt Sussman” (if that is his real name) and whatever other monosyllabic punks you drag into this FM-Arts smackdown will be weeping in pain and contrition before that three-minute glass is even halfway down. This will be a relentless vocabulatory pounding that could only be surpassed by William Safire playing George W. Bush at Scrabble. Christine Yokoyama is a 100-pound ball...
Whether it is the Victorian-era style of their Mather common room, Maats’ turn in drag at the Miss Harvard pageant or his running in gold paint with angel wings at primal scream, Maats likes to rebel against the conventional...
...rich beau if she can prove she's a virgin. Just before the medical exam, she is abducted by aliens and impregnated. Alex Cheung's parody of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Star Wars climaxes with a madcap battle between Darth Vader and a sleazy detective in drag. One lightsaber becomes a numchuk; another goes limp at a fatal moment ("Should've had my battery charged"). This is a wildly, almost self-destructively inventive comedy...
...sorrowful, suffused with the Inferno-like imagery he evokes throughout the novel. Frenzy overtakes first the soldiers, "unstoppable like a crazed dragon," and then their victims, consumed by grief, cursing the government even as they fall. It's at Tiananmen that Jin's scrupulous realism, which can prove a drag, pays off with bitter authenticity. His clean and lucid sentences contrast effectively with the insanity of soldiers executing unarmed students in the streets. Jian, an accidental protester, is left as devastated as the rest; he can only repeat numbly to himself, "They killed lots of people, lots...
...panache—you always knew when she was in your midst,” Coontz said. “She was the first senior tutor, that I know of, to participate in drag night. She loved to party...