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...Columbus; Letting Go; When She Was Good -- he got into trouble outside his novels. He was accused of being a self-hating Jew, of having had an unnatural relationship with his baseball glove, of betraying friends. The conventional novel proved too damned intimate; Roth's talent for making life fizz up on the page was too convincing for comfort. Since then, he $ has developed a feisty art of self-defense -- and the defense never rests...
FOOD: Yuppiedom loses its fizz...
...chic restaurants and athletic clubs, health-conscious Americans guzzled so much Perrier bottled mineral water in the 1980s that it became the drink of the decade. Some of the fizz may go out of Perrier's $450 million annual sales with word last week that the firm's U.S. distributor is recalling its entire inventory from store shelves nationwide because laboratory tests found benzene in a small number of bottles...
...honest homage to the pop-culture traditions of stage, cinema, radio and recording studio (especially those of the '40s, when it is set), yet brings them together in a fashion that feels fresh and new. Nostalgia plus novelty is a notoriously volatile cocktail, but Angels has the impeccably elegant fizz of champagne...
...Appalachian coal miner who moved north to seek work, Braden was born and raised in the industrial town of Monroe, Mich. On his way to play football one day, Vic, then 11, passed the local tennis courts just as someone opened a can of balls. "You could hear the fizz," he recalls. "I could smell the rubber. It was an amazing kind of olfactory thing. I made up my mind I wanted one of those things...