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...Angeles, the feeling about the Dodgers is you either love ’em or you hate ’em. Seeing as I certainly did not love my Dodger experience, I suppose I have no other choice but to hate them. And it’s really a shame too. The team itself is phenomenal and will likely go far this post season, if not all the way. But the fans that turn out for Dodgers games do not deserve such a good team. They’re always too distracted by beachballs or fights or heckling Manny...
...good. Really good. First stop is a New York City jewelry shop, where she wants to buy two gold chains. "You've got such a nice selection," she tells the salesman. Always butter 'em up. Gault borrows another sales technique by inching into the seller's personal space - not in a menacing, I'm-going-to-steal-something way but in an enthusiastic, we're-on-the-same-team way. At first the salesman looks suspicious but quickly decides that she's serious about buying (and that this isn't a stickup...
...character was said to be fashioned on folksy radio and TV host Arthur Godfrey.) Lonesome's derisive description of his audience is pure Schulberg: "Rednecks, crackers, hillbillies, hausfraus, shut-ins, pea-pickers - everybody that's got to jump when somebody else blows the whistle. ... They're mine! I own 'em! They think like I do. Only they're even more stupid than I am, so I gotta think for 'em." Of course it was Schulberg who was doing the thinking for moviegoers...
...Granted, there's not much here that's new. Pynchon, 72, has been playing variations on these themes since the genius trifecta of his early days: V., The Crying of Lot 49 and Gravity's Rainbow. Even the grace notes are familiar. Inane, invented song lyrics? Got 'em. Festive foodstuffs? Pass the chocolate-covered frozen bananas. Funny names? How about a drug dealer called El Drano? It's an anagram for his real name, Leonard. Which, let's be clear, is pretty funny...
That'll Teach 'Em 1988 Proposition 98 allocates roughly 40% of the state budget to education...