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Jealous is a coming-of-age story told by Larry, a Montana boy who leaves his father's house near the Teton River to live with his mother in Seattle. On the road with his flirty aunt in her pink Cadillac, Larry seems a bit like Huck Finn rafting to new adventures. But Doris is no runaway Jim. Free in body and spirit, she drinks while driving, talks to dangerous characters in strange bars and dispenses seasoned opinions that underscore the title of the book. On why Larry's mom and dad separated: "They know too much about each other...
...after the unavoidable 1964 Surgeon General's report, found a different reason: because it was cool and widely reviled. Smoking today fits perfectly into the honored tradition of American individualism, a tradition as endemic as baseball or pickup trucks. We smokers like to think that when that paradigmatic American Huck Finn lit out for the territory...
...their part, students are depicted as at their most alive when they have as little to do with school as possible. Huck and Holden light out for their respective territories; Ferris Bueller is the god of glorious truancy. Or make an Animal House, and trash the joint. School is anticreativity, antifreedom, anti-American--an attitude only logically contradicted by a society that insists on higher education for all and accreditations up to the eyeballs...
...only should Holocaust victims or their relatives have the opportunity to retrieve money and possessions [WORLD, Feb. 24], but they should also collect interest from the Swiss banks. And they shouldn't even have to mention the word lawsuit. SIMON HUCK Ottawa...
...hottest places on the Net--a top attraction on Prodigy, despite the page's lack of advertising, graphics, sound, color or flashing pyrotechnics. Or maybe as a result: Walter Miller's Home Page is just writing, hilarious writing, in the long tradition of lowbrow American satire. Think of Huck Finn, Forrest Gump and Beavis and Butt-head all channeled through the persona of a 20-year-old, acne-speckled, "boy-gennius programmer in the booming computer industry." Walter Miller's Home Page is little more than misspelled accounts of his exploits, posted to the Web each month. "I guess...