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...story begins on the banks of Lake Erie, in Willowick, Ohio (pop. 15,469). It is the last Monday night in January, about 9 o'clock. City councilman Frank Suponcic is home with his wife Linda when the phone rings. Linda answers. "Hi, this is Mike," says the man at the other end, politely enough. Linda chats with Mike, figuring he must be a constituent. (As Willowick's longest-serving ward councilman, Suponcic has lots of voters calling him at home.) After a while, Mike asks for Annette. Linda tells him he has the wrong number. Mike apologizes and hangs...
...hear [my roommate] talking to her mother, like 'Hi, Mommy, I love you,' it's just like 'I gotta get out of here,'" Dorsainvil says...
...buddies fit better in it. But the high driving position makes Partridge feel more secure: "You don't have all the creeps in vans looking down at you." She feels physically more secure too: "When I drive the Mercedes, I just feel--black Mercedes, blond hair--it's like, 'Hi, here I am, carjack...
Stereotypes--sophisticated, hi-fidelity stereotypes--are introduced, are belittled, and then skillfully revealed as vivid characters. We can see this in Sabbath's sexual escapades, which have a touch of the anthropological about them. Sabbath is shame-less enough to offer a girl in a detox clinic two quarts of vodka in return for sexual favors (while, mind you, he is ostensibly visiting his wrecked second wife drying up in said clinic), he is sharp enough to describe both his target and his wife with a commited, if not exactly compassionate, eye. This unblinking veracity is the source of Roth...
STEVE FORBES MAY BE THE ONLY man ever to run for President who behaves as if it's bad manners to introduce himself to strangers. On the campaign trail, he approaches voters with disarming politeness. "Hi, I'm Steve Forbes," he says softly, and then extends a delicate, manicured hand as though he's reaching for a wine glass. He doesn't plunge into crowds; he tiptoes through them, smiling apologetically, as if he doesn't want to be a nuisance...