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...talking-head format allows Roth to play to his strengths of critical intelligence and pitch-perfect ear. Few writers can touch him when it comes to the illusion of natural dialogue or the comic possibilities latent in high- mindedness. Deception is not a full orchestration of Roth's abilities but a chamber version. Stripped of narrative, the voices are free to play off each other. They may also offer the most delicious deception of all. Could this skeletal novel be just loosely stitched exercises from Roth's notebooks? Mirrors, mirrors on the wall, who's the falsest of them...
...fact that the preservation and care of the land, air and water may rise and dominate all other issues. It links hearts and minds across continents, obliterates old barriers that kept people apart, banishes ideology. Eighty- seven-year-old Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina turned a deaf ear for years, but now he has listed the improvement of the environment as one of his top goals before he is called up yonder. The environmental political flood is about to break over...
...stats are the least of it. The job of manager entails much more than keeping the time, taking down goals, saves, assists, and engineering substitutions with a ear-blasting, really annoying horn...
...favorite mount is El Alamein, a stallion out of Mexico with a good ear, as Reagan explains. "Not too long ago, he did something that made me kind of call him to order, and I said, 'Hey, Mexicano.' He stopped and turned and looked right at me, and I thought, 'My gosh, he was raised and ridden and directed with the Mexican language.' So I've got to learn a little more Spanish...
...ending the song with "Oh, yeah." RCA Records pressed a single of it the next day. After that, performers strained to put their personal stamp on the anthem: Lou Rawls (languorous jazz), Aretha Franklin (Motown), Al Hirt (Dixieland) and Frank Sinatra (moody lounge lizard). The prize for the most ear-bending version goes to Jimi Hendrix's screeching finale at Woodstock...