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...tower that sprouted, toadstool-like, almost overnight. A month ago, however, the company that built it, InterCel, bowed to community pressure and consented to take the tower down. Here in Du Page County, PrimeCo has agreed to consider other sites. "If these companies aren't careful," says Gayle Franzen, chairman of the Du Page County board, "they may get the one thing they don't want"--a tough new set of regulations...
Living Music Poetry Forum. Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno, Cola Franzen and the musical group NOTE. Lower Common Room, Adams House, 8 p.m. $10. Free to Adams House residents...
...Franzen, who himself lived and worked at Harvard in the seismology lab, is definitely writing in his element. He captures the age of the nineties with its many different faces. What initially seems like a politically correct analysis of the ailments of society turns out to be a subtle joke on political correctness and a lesson for all: The world doesn't fit into the stereotypes so loosely applied these days. More often than not, people and issues reside in a gray area. Full of strong motions and emotions, Franzen's novel will send a few ripples your...
Like the city of Cambridge, Franzen's characters embody many different facets and textures. His religious fundamentalist, Reverend Stites, is kind and smart. No matter how hard you try, you just can't hate him. Louis' sister Eileen--a B-School alum--is greedy and conniving, but she is more like a lost and pathetic child than anything else...
...Franzen's characters are fallible; we can relate to them and forgive them. He renders them in a unique voice, which is humorous, moving and which always epitomizes the times...