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Reader, beware. This article is rated PG: Pretty Ghoulish. Or, as Bette Davis' recorded voice advises at the beginning of each Grave Line Tour, "Fasten your seat belts. It's going to be a bumpy night...
Nothing in this scene overtly suggests the imminence of comic catastrophe. But experienced readers of Thomas Berger will immediately put on their crash helmets and fasten the safety belts. Newcomers are advised to follow suit. The Houseguest, Berger's 15th novel, picks up some of the pieces scattered by the explosive anarchy of his Neighbors (1980). Once again, an apparently stable domestic setting warps and buckles into chaos, and kindred characters struggle to adjust to a world in which the outrageous has suddenly become the norm...
Look out, Texas Air and American! Fasten your seat belts, TWA and Delta! The old United Airlines is aiming to make a comeback -- under new leadership. And forget about that weird name Allegis, which Builder Donald Trump said was "better suited to the next world-class disease." The new chairman plans to scuttle that moniker, along with the company's dubious strategy of being a sprawling travel conglomerate that rents cars and runs hotels. From now on, United will concentrate on the airline business, this time with its pilots eyeing roles in the boardroom as well as in the cockpit...
Part memoir, part self-help manual, Everything to Gain combines some rather obvious advice on how to stay healthy (do not smoke, fasten seat belts, exercise regularly) with strikingly candid personal reflections. After the 1980 presidential defeat, Rosalynn reveals, she was reluctant to give up the dream that her husband might again run for President and win. Daughter Amy, then 12, announced that she did not want to live in Plains, Ga. "You may be from the country," she said. "But I'm not." (She went to boarding school instead.) On a lighter note, the Carters write that...
...when someone asks you to lead a parade of 125,000 people? You say yes yes yes. She tells you to get on some white clothes and the official gold sash and to come up to the front. You ask a woman for a pin to fasten your official gold sash. The woman asks who sent you here. "Some girl," you answer. "First of all there are no girls here," she says, "only women." She doesn't give...