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VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY Hideous as his image was, Playboy interview makes it worse
...very near future, New York State will join the 37 others that already have a death penalty. The death penalty is a hideous fact of our legal culture, perhaps a hideous necessity. But even if we decide to kill society's killers, we must do so in a way that communicates the gravity of that decision. We must not allow our own courts to become blood thirsty...
...viewer into the girls' fantasy world, as elaborate as that created by the Bronte sisters: a kingdom called Borovnia, where the clay statues they have molded come to life as blue- blooded versions of their favorite "saints" (Mario Lanza and James Mason) and demons (Orson Welles, "the most hideous man alive"). But demons can also be sexy. When a fellow makes clumsy love to Pauline, she pays him no heed and imagines herself ravaged by her fantasy Welles...
...result was a win, and the players had to be pleased with their overall performance, especially since this was the team's first action against another school. And even though the first period was truly hideous, Harvard settled down and played well in the final 40 minutes, where it outshot...
...usually psychotic narrators. The longer stories in this volume, especially "We Get Along" and the title story, are sensitive and wicked observations of family life (and death). "Jamboree" is an absolute beauty. The story's young narrator--who lives in his sister's garage and takes care of her hideous baby which looks like it's fashioned from ground beef--is sketched without any of the sentimentality that usually characterizes such portraits. If it were a novel and if Sedaris were British, it would be short-listed fro the Booker Prize...