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...storylines that never coalesce into a thematic, artistic goal. The book works much better as a smartly depicted character study of the post-graduate, middle-class, suburban types that spend several years in the city before getting married and moving out. The six hundred pages give Robinson room to flash back on important events like Sherman's struggle with his mom's cancer and Ed's tale of retribution against an abusive uncle. Every fifty pages or so he makes the characters answer a get-to-know-you question like, "What is your secret talent...
...what O&A are most famous for is "Whip 'em Out Wednesdays," when women are encouraged to flash guys who have WOW bumper stickers on their cars, or even just the staff of a live Today show, as a listener did last summer. And while Stern has to import porn stars, O&A have little trouble finding young women to play along. "I think it gives women some power," Opie explains. When asked what he means by that, he leans his chair back against the conference-room window and says, "That's a good question. What do I mean...
Tucker has an almost unnaturally huge voice, but when momentum builds inside a Sleater-Kinney rhythm and then arrives like a flash flood, the sound makes Tucker's seem the only appropriate voice to speak of what's at stake: in Youth Decay, love and hate, life and death...
...cruiser is waiting for me and as soon as I say, with customary pride, that I'm Caroline's Dad, the lights begin to flash and we wheel about in tandem. We cross the canal and travel. . . . well, I have no idea how far we travel. A mile, maybe. I do know that as we turn into the Saints Memorial parking lot I realize that this is yet another hospital that has gone under and been reborn. "This used to be Saint John's," I say to Kevin...
...does Jiang consider Falun Gong such a threat to China? It is because the country's leaders no longer have any convictions to cling to and are therefore insecure about their legitimacy. They talk communist but act capitalist. "Flash the left indicator, turn to the right," is a popular mainland quip on hypocrisy in high places...