Word: echoed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Artist as a Young Man famously begins, "Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road . . ." Roddy Doyle's Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (Viking; 282 pages; $20.95) opens this way: "We were coming down our road." The echo sounds intentional, as if Doyle, with fine Irish fatalism, knows that all books about Dublin's seedy, seething street life carry the curse of invidious comparison with the works of the master. Why not invoke it at the top and then get on with the story...
...Shellac "Doris" 2. Bikini Kill "Star-Bellied Boy" 3. Kudgel "Chicken Pump" 4. Rancid Hell Spawn "Axe Hore" 5. Thinking Fellers "Undertakers" 6. Guitar Wolf "Red Rockabilly" 7. Element of Crime "Jaws All Ism" 8. Mecca Normal "Echo" 9. Milkmine "Split Tail" 10. Gaunt "Good Bad Happy Sad" 11. Fat Day "Delicate Cutter" 12. Huggy Bear "Pansy Twist" 13. Hammerhead "Evil Twin" 14. The Ex with Tom Cora "Everything and Me" 15. Disorder "Violent Crime" 16. Mad Scene "Holding Pattern" 17. Bugskull "What Shall I Give to the King?" 18. The Smiles "Lions on the Prowl" 19. Ampersands "Postcards...
Accommodation and compromise only begin at the altar. The qualities that attracted Dan Kalmanson, an Anglo of European extraction, to Yilva Martinez in a Miami reggae club -- her Spanish accent, exotic style of dance and playfulness -- had a more challenging echo in their married life. After they wed in 1988, Ignacio, Yilva's then eight-year-old son by a previous marriage, moved from Venezuela to join the couple. Dan, 33, spoke no Spanish, the boy no English. The couple decided to compel Ignacio to speak English. He caught on so fast that his Spanish soon degenerated. Says Yilva...
...American society. One of the most ^ outspoken advocates for the latter is Daniel Stein, executive director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, who favors a moratorium on all immigration, insisting that "nations do not have an unlimited capacity to absorb immigrants without irrevocably altering their own character" -- an echo of a view enunciated more than a century...
...take so long? Whose interests are Republicans and renegade Democrats supporting when they oppose it? The answer seems clear: their own. If the NRA lined your pocket with much-needed campaign funds in a depressed economy before an election year, you too might echo John Breaux. Before it was clear that the filibuster would be broken, the senator from Louisiana said, "I'm going to do some polling back in Louisiana over the recess...