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...routes with barbed-wire barricades and water cannon. White-helmeted marshals among the marchers moved quickly to keep order. The demonstrators settled for more speeches and sang the opposition's rallying song, United for Taiwan. The police stayed back but blasted martial music from their own sound trucks to drown out the protesters...
...weathered this ordeal nicely. To be sure, a few readers will complain that his second novel fails to live up to the promise of Edisto, which drew raves and comparisons to Huckleberry Finn and The Catcher in the Rye when it appeared in 1984. A Woman Named Drown is not going to remind anyone of Anna Karenina. On the other hand, Powell's new book picks up smoothly where its predecessor left off, which is not, given the level of skills evident throughout Edisto, a bad place to begin...
...custodians of their chances in life." The first hint that all this aimlessness may be leading him somewhere comes when he moves in with Mary Constance Baker, an older woman, amateur actress and local celebrity, best known for her starring role in a play called A Woman Named Drown. In fact, this performance has given her the urge to get away for a while; after playing a woman accused of sleeping with a black, Mary thinks some of her Knoxville neighbors have started to harbor the same suspicion about her. Before long, Mary gives Al all of her late husband...
...buddy, now a master dope smuggler and chatty amoralist; Maria Conchita Alonso as the woman they both love; and a wild bunch from the CIA or somewhere. Their task is to supply the movie with a little mystery and a lot of obscurantist firepower, enough to drown out conventional logic's objections to a vast silliness...
...because we feed off each other," says Jeff Wolk. Because the Bruin band wasn't concerned with being funny, the game wasn't as interesting. "They just yelled obscenities back instead of trying to outdo us. We'd come up with a good cheer and they'd just drown it out with their stupid catcalls," Wolk says...