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...seduced a hog." Dissatisfied by the prospect of a life lived by moonshine and bluegrass, Offutt sets out for New York City to become an actor. He roams the U.S., never managing to hold down a job or a relationship; we see him dodge an arranged marriage in Minneapolis, grab a drag queen's penis in New York (mistaking it for a gun) and lose a job with the circus when he slithers, hung-over, out of his walrus suit in the middle...
Jordan made the grab on the fly and crashed into the fence--but held onto the ball to end the Crimson threat...
...plot is dreary and predictable in its basics: neurasthenic young woman falls apart. That is, in fact, what happens; Ann Rogers crumbles and collapses. Why does this matter? Why does author Harrison's novel (her second, after the much praised Thicker Than Water) grab the reader by the throat? Is it the hook of that voyeuristic first scene in the taxi? Are we waiting for something like that striptease to happen again...
...Last year he forgot to remind us about an upcoming match [against Boston University]," Park said. "He wound up calling us all the day of the match and telling us to grab our rackets and run over to the courts so we wouldn't miss the game...
...time of Gorbachev that the Russians don't give a damn about the prestige of their leaders," says Gernot Erler, a senior German legislator, "unless it puts food in their stomachs." No Western wands can wave away the real economic hardship that has fueled the Russian Congress's grab for power...